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Francis Ferdinand
Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo -
Kaiser William
Kaiser William II promised German support for Austria against Serbia -
WAR!
Austria declared war on Serbia -
WAR!!
Germany declared war on Russia -
Chemical Weapons
The French were actually the first to use them in conflict, when they attempted to use tear gas against the German army. -
WAR!!!
Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium. -
WAR!!!!
Britain declared war on Germany -
Defeated
Russian army defeated at Tannenburg and Masurian Lakes. -
Battle
Battle of the Marne started -
Ypres
First Battle of Ypres -
Trench Warfare
Turkey entered the war on Germany’s side. Trench warfare started to take over the Western Front. -
Christmst Truce
The German and British troops sang Christmas carols to each other across the lines and they didn't fight on that day. -
Captured
The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians -
The Red Baron
The Red Baron was well known as Manfred von Richthofen. Mr. Richthofen was considered the top man of the war, he was credited with 80 air combat victories. -
Lusitania/U-Boat
The “Lusitania” was sunk by a German U-boat on the Outer Banks -
WAR!!!!!
Italy declared war on Germany and Austria -
Gallipoli
The Allies started the evacuation of Gallipoli -
Verdun
Start of the Battle of Verdun -
Battle at Sea
The First World War and includes the greatest naval action of the war, at Jutland in 1916. -
Jutland
Battle of Jutland -
Somme
Start of the Battle of the Somme -
Tanks!
First use en masse of tanks at the Somme -
Zimmerman Telegraph
British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. -
Submarine warfare
Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started -
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution of March 1917 put an end to the autocratic monarchy of imperial Russia and replaced it with a provisional government. -
Kiffin Rockwell
Kiffin Rockwell was born in 1892 in Newport, Tennessee. The family soon moved to the home of his maternal grandfather in South Carolina, and later to Asheville, North Carolina. -
WAR!!!!!!
USA declared war on Germany -
America at war
America enter world war one -
3rd battle at Ypres
Start of the Third Battle at Ypres -
Caporetto
Battle of Caporetto, the Italian Army was heavily defeated -
Western Front
Britain launched a major offensive on the Western Front -
Cambrai
British tanks won a victory at Cambrai -
Armistice
Armistice between Germany and Russia signed -
14 Pionts
The "Fourteen Points" was a statement by United States President Woodrow Wilson declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe. -
Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany. -
Successful advancment
The advance of the Allies was successful -
Peace
Turkey made peace -
Contributions
The contributions of the United States military to the Allied effort were decisive. -
Peace
Austria made peace -
Abdicated
Kaiser William II abdicated -
END OF THE WAR!
Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One. -
Gunter
The last man to die in world war one was a man named Henry Gunter, Gunter died at 10:59 and the war was supposed to be over at 11:00. -
Armistice
At 5 AM on the morning of November 11 an armistice was signed in a railroad car parked in a French forest near the front lines, to end the war. -
Number of Deathes
The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was over 37 million: over 16 million deaths and 20 million wounded. -
Economic costs of the war
One estimate is that the Allies spent $147 billion on the war and the Central Powers only $61 billion. The U.S. $27 billion; among the Central Powers Germany spent $45 billion. -
Personal Conclusion
World War One was a long, hard battle to fight. Many people died and it costed a lot of money for the countries, and many lifes were lost.