World War I

By jo.adams1229

  • Hollywood, California

    Becomes the center of movie productions in the US. The first studio was established by the Selig Polyscope Company in Edendale. Director D.W.Griffith was the first to make a motion picture in Hollywood.

  • 1914 Archduke Franz Ferninand and his wife are assassinated

    He and his wife were shot by someone in the crowd when her was visiting the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. Caused a diplomatic crisis. Shortly after on June 28 Austria-Hungary declared what was expected to be a short war on Serbia.

  • Great Britain declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary

    After Germany invaded Belgium Britain declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. The alliance system pulled many nations into conflict. This was the beginning of the Great War.

  • Germany declares war on Russia and France

    Germany invaded Belgium with the Schlieffen Plan. After they defeated France they went on to defeat Russia. Described as the first major refugee crisis in the 20th century.

  • Albert Eiinstein

    Proposes his general theory of relativity- the product of eight years of work on the problem of gravity. What we feel as the 'force' of gravity is simply the sensation of following the shortest path we can through curved, four-dimensional space-time. His theory was completed in 1915.

  • 1st transcontinental telephone call

    A 1998 U.S. postage stamp commemorates the completion of the line in 1914. The Alexander Grahan Bell call officially initiated AT&T's transcontinental service. President Woodrow Wilson said "It appeals to the imagination to speak across the continent."

  • German U-boats sink the Lusitania

    1198 people died and this took place on the southern coast of Ireland. 128 of the people were Americans. American public opinions turned against Germany and the Central Powers.

  • The battles of Verdun and the Somme

    The Somme was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It was one of the largest battles of World War I. The German Army began the Battle of Verdun.

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Gets re-elected president. Wilson defeated Hughes by nearly 600,000 votes in the popular vote. Wilson's re-election marked the first time that a Democratic Party candidate had won two consecutive Presidential elections since Andrew Jackson

  • US declares war on Germany

    President Woodrow Wilson had asked a special joint session of Congress for this declaration. Wilson realized war was inevitable but agonized over the decision for what it might do to the spirit of the nation. "Once lead these people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance ... the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life ... every man who refused to conform would have to pay the penalty."

  • Selective Service Act

    Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I. Through the compulsory enlistment of people. It was brought to President Woodrow Wilson's attention shortly after the break in relations with Germany

  • Russia withdraws from the war

    Happened 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. Russian soldiers deserted in droves.

  • League of Nations

    President Wilson proposed the LN. An intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. The first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

  • Congress pass Sedition Act

    Extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range. It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt. Anyone who went against it got 20 years in prison.

  • WWI Ends

    At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.