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Russia Mobilizes
Russia and
its vast army to intervene against Austria-Hungary in favor of its ally, Serbia. This movement makes other countries mad and lead
to the mobilization of the rest of the European Great Powers, and inevitably to the outbreak of hostilities. -
German Fire
The Germans fire mortar shells filled with chlorine gas at Allied lines. This was the first time that large amounts of gas were used in battle and the result is the near-collapse of the French lines.The Nazi were unable to take advantage . -
Limits Submarines
Reacting to the international outrage of the sinking of the Lusitania was a ship and the neutral passenger .Kaiser suspends unrestricted submarine warfare. This is an attempt to keep the United States out of the war, but it severely hampers German efforts to prevent American supplies from reaching France and Britain. -
Battle of Jutland
The hope of The Battle of Jutland was spiting the British fleet and destroying It ship and ship.The Germans had a lot of statics. They had the one that Nelson at Trafalgar. The Germans did a lot of damage to the British s withdrawing. -
Zimmerman Telegram
British intelligence came across a message from the Germans that were proposing that Mexico side with Germany in case of war between Germany and the United States. In return the Germans were to return Mexico the land that the USA took away the rest of the American Southwest. Mexico declines the offer, but that outrage at this interference in the Western Hemisphere pushes American and they join the war. -
A Legend
An American squad was under machine gun fire until a sharpshooting Corporal named Alvin York picked off the gunners one by one until here were no more ammunition . When he ran out of ammunition eight of the German soldiers charged York . The German commander surrendered the American corporal and his seven surviving comrades. -
USA Declares war on the Germans
The United States of America declared war on Germany in the response to the sinking of a boat filled with Americans by German U boats, of US ships. -
Germany and Russia Peace
.The Germans sign a peace treaty with Russia government . The terms of the treaty were to give Germany huge tracts of land that had been take during the war the Ukraine and Poland and peace on the Eastern Front allows the Germans to shift soldiers to the Western Front, causing serious problems for the French, British, and Americans.
