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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
On this day in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot dead by a Bosnian Serbian nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The murders provoked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War in early August. On June 28, 1919, five years after the death of Franz Ferdinand, Germany and the Allied Powers signed the Treaty of Versailles, which officially marks the end of the First World War. -
Trench Warfare poison Gas and machine Guns
Technology during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general. This trend began at least fifty years prior to World War I during the American Civil War of 1861–1865,[1] and continued through many smaller conflicts in which soldiers and strategists tested new weapons. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The First World War, previously called the Great War, was a warlike confrontation centered on Europe that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the conditions of the armistice. We received the qualification of "world" because all the great industrial and military powers of the time were involved, divided into two alliances -
Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram (or Zimmerman Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. If the United States entered World War I against Germany, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The telegram was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence. -
Russian Revolution
The Tar was forced to abdicate and the old regime was replaced by a Provisional Government after the first Revolution of February 1917 (March in the Gregorian calendar, as the Julian calendar was in use in Russia at that time). In the subsequent October Revolution, the Provisional Government was eliminated and replaced with a Bolshevik government of communist tendency known as the Sovnarkom. -
U.S Entry Into WWL
U.S. Entry into World War I, 1917. On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. ... The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917. -
Battle of Argonne Forest 1918
The Battle of Argonne Forest was part of what became known as the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the last battle of World War I . It was a massive attack along the whole line, with the immediate goal of reaching the railroad junction as Sedan. The US had over 1 million troops now available to fight. -
Armistice
The Armistice of November 11, 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport, near Compiègne, which ended the fight for land, sea and air in the First World War between the Allies and their opponent, Germany. Previous armistices were agreed with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918, speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité of Versailles) was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
