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On June 28th, 1914, Franz Ferdinand was in the Austro Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina with his wife. They were shot and killed by Gavrillo Princip. -
Austria Hungary was one of the central powers in Word war 1 which began with an Austro Hungarian war declaration on the Kingdom of Serbia on July 18th, 1914 -
Life in the trenches involved long periods of boredom mixed with brief periods of terror. There were poor living conditions and lack of sleep. The trench warfare was a method of fighting in which both sides dug trenches protected by mines and barbed wire.The trench warfare started in the summer of 1914 -
The war on the western front began on 3 August 1914 with Germany aggressively marching into Belgium and Luxembourg. France was waiting within its borders for Germany to make the first moves through the country -
Britian began a naval blockage. This strategy proved effective, cutting off vital military and civilian supplies and also helped allies to eventually win the war. Germany declared a war zone around Britian, within which merchant ships sunk without warning. Germany wished to retaliate and to break Britians command of the seas. -
At 4am on 21 February 1916 the battle began, with a massive artillery bombardment and a steady advance by troops of the German Fifth Army under Crown Prince Wilhelm. Five days into the battle, German forces captured Fort Douaumont, the largest and highest of the 19 forts protecting Verdun. -
At dawn on 25 April 15, Allied troops landed on the peninsula in Ottoman Turkey. The Gallipoli campaign was the land based element of a strategy included to allow allied ships to pass through the Dardanelles, capture Constantinople and knock out Ottoman Turkey out of war. -
On May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic sea. -
The treaty of London was signed on April 26, 1915 and Italy declared war on Austria Hungary May 23, 1915. It was the emperors obstinacy that caused Italy to enter the war as an enemy of the Monarchy. It was on the understanding that the Allies would seek to provide Italy with substantial territorial gains at the cost of Austria-Hungary. -
At 4am on 21 February 1916 the battle began, with a massive artillery bombardment and a steady advance by troops of the German Fifth Army under Crown Prince Wilhelm. Five days into the battle, German forces captured Fort Douaumont, the largest and highest of the 19 forts protecting Verdun.
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The battle of the somme was fought on July 1 to November 18, 1916. The 1916 Somme offensive was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War (1914-18). The opening day of the attack, 1 July 1916, saw the British Army sustain 57,000 casualties, the bloodiest day in its history. The campaign finally ended in mid-November after an agonising five-month struggle that failed to secure a breakthrough. -
The Battle of Verdun ended on December 18, 1916. As fighting at Verdun stretched on and on, German resources were stretched thinner by having to confront both a British-led offensive on the Somme River and Russia’s Brusilov Offensive on the Eastern Front. The massive loss of life at Verdun—143,000 German dead out of 337,000 casualties, to France’s 162,440 out of 377,231—would come to symbolize, more than that of any other battle, the bloody nature of trench warfare on the Western Front. -
The Zimmerman telegram was a secret message sent by Germany to Mexico in January 19 of 1917 during ww1. The British presented the Zimmermann telegram to the U.S. Government in an effort to capitalize on growing anti-German sentiment in the United States. The American press published news of the telegram on March 1. On April 6, 1917, the United States Congress formally declared war on Germany and its allies. -
Russian Revolution of 1917 on March 8th, Revolution that overthrew the imperial government and placed the Bolsheviks in power. Increasing governmental corruption, the reactionary policies of Tsar Nicholas II, and catastrophic Russian losses in World War I contributed to widespread dissatisfaction and economic hardship. -
The U.S. declared war on Germany on April 6th, 1917. President Woodrow Wilson signed this joint resolution, ending America's neutral stance on the ongoing global conflict – later deemed a “World War” – and formally declaring war against Imperial German Government. -
The USSR withdrew from World War I due to a combination of factors including internal political turmoil, economic strain, and military defeats. The Bolsheviks, who had seized power in Russia, were focused on consolidating their control and implementing their socialist agenda, which led to a desire to end the war. -
On Nov. 11, 1918, after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I. -
The Treaty of Versailles was the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. It was signed on June 28, 1919, by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles and went into effect on January 10, 1920. -
Perhaps the most humiliating portion of the treaty for defeated Germany was Article 231, commonly known as the "War Guilt Clause," which forced the German nation to accept complete responsibility for initiating World War I. Germany was required to make enormous reparation payments.