world war 1

  • Austria-Hungary declare war on serbia

    Austria-Hungary declare war on serbia
    Serbia assasinated Franz Fernidad, the future leader of Austria-Hungary, which caused Austria-Hungary to declare war on serbia/
  • France and Germany declare war on eachother

  • Russia offers Serbia Support

    Russia offers Serbia support, causing Germany to declare wae on Russia
  • Britain declares war on Germany

    Germany announces invasion of Neutral Belgium, causing Britain to declare war on germany
  • Japan declares war on Germany

    Japan declares war on Germany
    Japan declared war on Germany because they wanted to increase power in the far east
  • Battle of Tannenberg

    Battle of Tannenberg
    The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between Russia and Germany in the first month of World War I. Fought between 26 August and 30 August 1914, the battle resulted in the almost complete destruction.
  • First battle of the Marne

    The Battle of the Marne was the First World War battle fought from 5–12 September 1914. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German Army under Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Younger.
  • ottoman empire forms an alliance with germany

    Ottoman Empire forms an alliance with germany because Germany was winning and Russia was a threat to Turkish waterways
  • Gallipoli Campaign

    The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli or the Battle of Çanakkale was a campaign of World War I that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman epmire.
  • Italy signs treaty of London

    Italy signed the Treaty of London with the Triple Entente and declared war on Austria Hungary 1 month later
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • Battle of Verdun

    The Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February – 18 December 1916 during the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies, on hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France.
  • Battle of the Somme

    The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire.
  • zimmerman note

    zimmerman note
    Germany send the Zimmerman note to mexico and it instructed the ambassador, Count Johann von Bernstorff, to offer significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter any future U.S-German conflict as a German ally.
  • U.S declared war on Germany

    us declared war on germany because Germnay sunk a british ship with americans on board. France and Britain were their trade partners and they did not want to lose them.
  • woodrow wilson gives "fourteen points" speech

    woodrow wilson gives "fourteen points" speech
    speech to try and achieve peace
  • second battle of the marne

    The Second Battle of the Marne, or Battle of Reims was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during the First World War.
  • Austro-Hungarian revolution

    Early in September 1918 the Austro-Hungarian government proposed in a circular note to the other powers that a conference be held on neutral territory for a general peace. This proposal was quashed by the United States on the ground that the U.S. position had already been enunciated by the Wilsonian pronouncements (the Fourteen Points, etc.). But when Austria-Hungary, after the collapse of Bulgaria, appealed on October 4 for an armistice based on those very pronouncements, the answer on October
  • treaty of versailles

    treaty of versailles
    The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.