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beginning of world war I
The beginning of the war started with the death of archiduke ferdinand. this war is also known as The Great War. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Ferdinand was killed along with his wife. they were shot dead by garvilo princip. -
United kingdom declares war on Germany
The United Kingdom entered World War I with Herbert Henry Asquith of the Liberal Party as prime minister. -
Germans attack russia in east purrsia
the first major German offensive on the Eastern Front during the First World War. the attack was a failure due to the schlieffen plan. -
The first Battle of the Marne
this war lasted til the 12th of september.The battle effectively ended the month long German offensive that opened the war and had reached the outskirts of Paris. -
The ottomans fail to capture the suez canal
The advance across the Sinai took ten days, tracked by British aircraft, even though German aircraft stationed in Palestine in turn aided the Ottomans and later flew some bombing missions in support of the main attack. -
The British liner Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner. The Lusitania was fitted with revolutionary new turbine engines, able to maintain a speed of 25 knots.On the afternoon of May 7th, the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-Boat, 11 miles off the Southern coast of Ireland, and sank in just 18 minutes with a loss of 1195 lives. -
The Gallipoli Campaign ends in an Allied defeat and an Ottoman victory
The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign or the Battle of Gallipoli or the Battle of Canakkale. A joint British and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople.The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on both sides. The campaign was considered one of the greatest victories of the Turks and was reflected on as a major failure by the Allies. -
The British capture Baghdad
The British Indian Army fought the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. On 11 March 1917, after a series of defeats, it captured Baghdad after a two-year campaign.Some 9,000 Ottoman troops were caught in the confusion and became prisoners of the British. -
Woodrow Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points were a statement of principles contained in a speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The points encompassed war aims as forwarded by Wilson, and a general guideline for a post-war order and frontiers. The address was intended to assure the country, and the world, that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. -
Official end of World War I.
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
