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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
On June 28, Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand. The assassination sets off a series of fights that eventually lead to World War I. -
WW1 Begins
After Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. Serbia and Austria-Hungary then get there allies to help join the war and set off the war. -
Panama Canal opens
On August 15, 1914 The SS Ancon is the first ship through the Panama Canal. Because of complications of war not alowing the other ship who was really schedueld to be the first ship to go through. -
First battle of marne
was a First World War battle fought between the 5th and the 12th of September 1914. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German Army under Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. The battle effectively ended the month long German offensive that opened the war and had reached the outskirts of Paris. -
Amrenian massacre
In November 2 1914 The ottoman empire Goverment caputred and killed a lot of the well bodyed Amrenian Men. They killed and deported the woman and children as well as the elderly. Inorder to get ahead in the war, -
Gallipoli Campaign begins
British stores that could not be removed from Gallipoli burn on the shores of Suvla Bay in 1915. The British and French led the Gallipoli Campaign to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. The campaign ended in Ottoman victory and more than 100,000 deaths -
Sinking of the Lusitania
On May 7, a German U-boat torpedoed the Lusitania, which was carrying tons of ammunition. Sinking the boat and killing ,198 of the 1,959 passengers and crew and 128 americans -
Start of the Brusilov Offensive
Start of the Brusilov Offensive which helped the Brusilov people to attack and conquor. -
Battle of the Somme
Since the German Army's fortified trenches that where so well protected they where able to gun down the allias that came and tryed to take over. It is estimated that more than 600,000 Germans, 400,000 British, and 200,000 French soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme. -
Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun, the longest engagement of World War I, ends on this day after ten months and close to a million total casualties suffered by German and French troops. -
Germany returns to unrestricted subnmarine warfare
On January 8th 1917 Germany returns to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare it had previously suspended in response to pressure from the United States and other neutral countries. -
Zimmerman Telegram is intercepted
German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann sent a telegram to the German minister to Mexico stating Germany's intention to reinitiate unlimited submarine warfare on the world's oceans in an attempt to bring World War I to a close -
Czar Nicholas steps down from power
On March 2 1917, Czar Nicholas steps down form power and controll of the Rusian people. He steped down form fear of loseing the country and it being his fault that they lost the war. -
U.S. Declatation of war
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U.S Declaration of War
The US enters the war and joins the alias in the fight against the Germans and there alias. The U.S gets directly involved in the war and starts to fight against the enemy. -
Communists seize power in Russia
There were two Russian revolutions in 1917, one in the spring when the Provisional Government under Alexander Kerensky took power after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. This ended up knocking Russia out of WW1 from lack of support. -
Russia Pulls out of War
Russia was loseing a lot of people in the war, There troops and there people where starving and Russia didn't want to lose all those people for no reason so they pulled out of the war. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk sighned
The treaty was between russia and the central powers which where (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey). After two mounths of nagotation.The treaty was forced on the Soviet government by the threat of further advances by German and Austrian forces. -
Second Battle of the Marne
Was said to be the last major battle of WW1. The Germans attacks where foilded by the France and the allias. Stoping the Germans and ending the battle with several hundred tanks which helped to overwelm the Germans. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II steps down from power
After loseing the support of his trops and people in the war, he steped down from power in order to save himself and his country. This left Germany without a leader at this time. -
Armistice signed
Armistice is sighned on novermber 11th 1918 the U.S and its alies agree on a treaty that will work out for all of the countrys involved as well as the U.S -
End of WW1
Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war. -
Painting depicting German Trench Warfare
War Probaganda that helped to show the stuggles of war with "German Trench fighing" in order to get people to know what war is really like -
John Singer Sargent's Creats Gassed
John Singer Sargent'sCreated "Gassed" A painting that shows a frieze of soldiers being led from the battlefield -- alive, but changed forever by individual encounters with deadly hazard in war.
