world war 1

By antonio_bracy

  • assassination of Archduke Fraz Ferdinand and his wife

  • hollywood, California becomes the center of movie production in the U.s.

    hollywood becomes the center of movie production in the U.S

  • 1914 Germany declares war on Russia and France GB declares war on Germany and Austria- Hungary

    the alliance system pulled one nation into the conflict. the assassination set off treaties and war began to flare among the nations

  • German U- boats sink the Lusitania, and 1,198

    germanyb used u boats to secretly attack ppl, it was a primamry passenger ship, 1,201 drowned in the attack were many women and children including 128 americans

  • alexander Graham Bell makes 1st transcontinental telephone call

    called from New York to San Fransico. co- founder of AT&T

  • Albert einstein Proposes his general theory of relativity

    determined the laws of physics are the same fo all nonaccelerating observers, this was the theory of special relativity one of the smartest men on earth

  • woodrow Wilson is reelected president

    33rd president, held on tuesday November 7, 1916, was pitted supreme court justice charles evans hughes, the rupublican candidate

  • The battles of Verdun and the somme claim millions of lives

    The Battle of Verdun, fought from 21 February – 18 December 1916, was one of the biggest battles of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies

  • The selective service Act sets up the Draft

  • The U.S, declares war on Germany

    declared war on germnay, they wouldnt stop using air strikes

  • Russia withdraws From the war

    russias withdraw as a huge blow to the lost eastern front from Germany relieving the pressur eon the Germany so they could focus theri forces on the allies

  • Pres. Wilson purposes the League of Nations

    The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. Though first proposed by President Woodrow Wilson as part of his Fourteen Points plan for an equitable peace in Europe, the United States never became a member.

  • congress passes the sedition Act

    On this day in 1918, Congress extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broad range of spoken or written offenses, including the use of “disloyal, profane, scurrilous or abusive language” about the federal government, the U.S. flag or the armed forces or speech “that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt.”

  • The Bolsheviks establish a communist regime in Russia

    member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power.

  • the 1st world war ends.

    At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends, everybodys recovering from the losses