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Balkan War
The Balkan War was fought between the members of the Balkan League, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro and the Ottoman Empire. The Balkan League combined force of 750,000 men. Montenegro opened hostilities by declaring war on Turkey on Oct. 8, 1912. The Turkish collapse was so complete that all parties were willing to conclude an armistice on Dec. 3, 1912. -
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World War 1
World War I began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and lasted until 1918. During this Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan, and the United States. After this war, Germany surrenders on November 11, 1918, and all nations agreed to stop fighting in terms of waves of peace. On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations signed the Treaty of Versailles, ending the war. -
Assassination of archduke Ferdinand
In May, Gavrilo Princip, Trifko Grabez and Nedeljko Cabrinovic traveled to the Serbian capital of Belgrade, where they received six handheld bombs, four semi-automatic pistols and cyanide suicide capsules from members of the so-called Black Hand. During a car ride, Princip whipped out a pistol and fired 2 shots at Archduke at point-blank and striking Sophie in the abdomen. Princip, 19-year-old Serbian armies reject, later admitted to killing Ferdinand. -
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Armistice
On November 11, 1918, after 4 long terrifying years, millions of the lives lost. There was no gunfires just pure silence although there were fights elsewhere. The armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I. "There is some cheering across the river, occasional bursts of it as the news is carried to the advanced lines. For the most part, though, we are in silence. For months we have slept under the guns" Rober Casey -
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Gallipoli
On April 25, 1915, the Allies launched their invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Despite suffering heavy casualties. January 9, 1916. In all, some 480,000 Allied forces took part in the Gallipoli Campaign, at a cost of more than 250,000 casualties, including some 46,000 dead. On the Turkish side, the campaign also cost an estimated 250,000 casualties, with 65,000 killed. In the end, the Gallipoli war was a war that took many lives and causalities of both sides. -
Lusitania Sinks
A German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned steamship Lusitania, killing 1,195 people including 123 Americans, on May 7, 1915. This disaster led to the United States to enter World War 1. Germany defended its case, claiming that the Lusitania has carried weapons, bombs, and other things for war therefore it was a fair game. The sinking of Lusitania didn’t directly cause the United States to enter the war. It showed that Germany is willing to do almost anything to win the war. -
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Verdun
The battle of Verdun started February 21 and December 18, 1916. The German casualties 143,000 (out of 337,000 total casualties and the french casualties was 162,440 (out of 377,231). The Verdun War more than any other battle, the grinding, bloody nature of warfare on the Western Front during World War. What happen was battle was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war; French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000. -
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Somme war
The Battle of the Somme began on July 1st, 1916. Lasting 141 days it was one of the longest continuous battles of the First World War. There were more than 1 million casualties, including the deaths of more than 300,000. British troops sustained 420,000 casualties—including 125,000 deaths—during the Battle of the Somme. This war was intense and deadly due to that many casualties. The British and French armies fought the Germans in a brutal battle of attrition on a 15-mile front. -
Zimmerman Note
Zimmerman Note or also known as Zimmerman telegram. The "Zimmerman telegram," intercepted by the British, in which Germany floated the idea of an alliance with Mexico. That's why the U.S was in World War 1. The Zimmerman note was significant because it forced United States President Woodrow Wilson to reverse his initial position on American involvement in the European conflict and commit the United States to the war against Germany. -
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was one of the most explosive political events in the twentieth century in 1917. This marked the violent revolution and made an end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. In 1917, two revolutions swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and setting into motion political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. Western Europe viewed Russia as an undeveloped and backward society. -
U.S Enter the War
On April 6, 1917, The U.S joined alliances with Russia, Britain, and France to fight in World War 1. The U.S entered the war because of the german submarine which sunk the Lusitania killing more than 1,000 people and 123 Americans on that day. Another reason why the U.S enters the war because of the Zimmerman Note which was intercepted by Britain and the U.S found out about it. That's why The U.S enter World War 1. -
Russia Withdraws from War
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russia was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. Russia signaled her withdrawal from World War One soon after the October Revolution of 1917, and the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard. -
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Chateau-Thierry
The Chateau Thierry war lasted about 3 weeks from June 3, 1918, through June 28, 1918. American forces met with French allies at the Marne on 3 June and forced the Germans back across the river. In the first phase, the Germans assumed the offensive, trying to advance on 3 June against the US Marines manning shallow trenches. But by 26 June, they had taken Belleau Wood and forced the Germans into flight. -
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Argonne
The Meuse Argonne Offensive was the greatest American battle of the First World War. In six weeks the AEF lost 26,277 killed and 95,786 wounded. About forty German divisions from the Army Groups of the Crown Prince and General Max Carl von Gallwitz participated in the battle with the largest contribution by the Fifth Army of Group Gallwitz commanded by General Georg von der Marwitz. The Allied Won. -
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Treaty of Versailles
The main terms of the treaty of Versailles signed for the surrender of all German colonies as the League of Nation mandates and the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France. Another term is the Cession of Eupen-Malmedy to Belgium, n district to Czechoslovakia. The Treaty of Versaille's goal was to develop a treaty that would punish Germany and meet the goals of the various Allied Powers. which would be known as the Treaty of Versailles, was a long and complex process. -
First meeting of the League of Nation
On January 10, 1920, the League of Nations formally comes into being when the Covenant of the League of Nations, ratified by 42 nations in 1919, takes effect. In 1946, the League of Nations was officially dissolved with the establishment of the United Nations. The United Nations was modeled after the former but with increased international support and extensive machinery to help the new body avoid repeating the League’s failures.
