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Tripple alliance
The treaties of peace with Germany, Austria, and Hungary were signed by representatives of the United States. The United States representatives signed the treaty of peace with Bulgaria without having been at war with that country. -
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First Trenches and Machine guns
Warfare had depended upon hand-to-hand combat. World War I popularized the use of the machine gun, capable of bringing down row after row of soldiers from a distance on the battlefield. This weapon, along with barbed wire and mines, made movement across open land both difficult and dangerous. Thus trench warfare was born. -
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Memoirs
Memoirs were made between 1895-1990 (95 years)
Many of these letters described his time in france and how he fought in ww1 against germany and the allied powers. Descriptions of terrorized and ravaged lands haunted him. He saw many wounded and dead. He talked more about how the war affected him and what happened before and after. How he survived and lived to tell his tale. -
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Elliot's Friends and Deployment in France
Elliot wrote some letters between 1914 and 1917 talking about his time deplayed in rance and the friends he made there. -
Archduke Assassination
The Archduke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated during a public event sparking tension between eourpean countries. -
WW1 Begins
After the assassination of Frantz Ferdinand, its sparked a chain of events that began to spark WW1. Such as rising threats from powerful countries. -
Elliot Hugh Lee
When the United States entered World War I, First Lieutenant Elliott Lee was a recent graduate of Princeton, and hoped to contribute to the war effort by becoming an officer in the Army. He was advised to join the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps, which had units soon to depart for France to be attached to the French Army. -
Lusitania Sinks
A German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania. The ship carried 1,198 people, 128 of them Americans. -
Ottoman Empire declaration of war
Declaration of war to the Ottoman Empire on August 21st 1915. -
Polish Rise and Fall
The start of World War I reignited Polish dreams of self-determination. Two years later, in 1916, the Polish cartographer, Eugeniusz Rome, started the rise and fall of his country. The map was part of his atlas known as the “Geographical and Statistical Atlas of Poland” that later helped shape Poland’s independence in the Paris peace negotiations of 1919. -
First Tanks
Tanks were first deployed at the Battle of Flers on 15 September as part of The Somme offensive. Although they were initially unreliable, slow and of a limited number, tanks re-introduced mobility to war. -
Elliot Getting First Lieutenent
Elliot received his highest ranked position as first lieutenant after working in the military after 2 years. -
Zimmerman Telegram
the Zimmermann Telegram, a message from German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann proposing that Mexico side with Germany in case of war between Germany and the United States. In return, Germany promises to return to Mexico the lost areas the USA took from them. -
Elliot's Help
Working on the front during the Second Battle of the Marne in July 1918, he was eventually awarded three Croix de Guerre by the French government. His service to France did not end with World War I: following a career in business, he helped lead a relief organization dedicated to restoring the country after World War II. -
The Battle of Belleau.
The Battle of Belleau Wood begins as the U.S. Marine Corps attacks the Germans across an open field of wheat, suffering huge casualties.
