WORLD WAR I

By 25malexander

  • Franz Ferdinand Assaassination

    Franz Ferdinand Assaassination
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated while visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia. He was next in line for the Austro-Hungarian throne. The killings set off decades of old tensions in Europe and started WWI.

  • Austria-Hungary Declaring War On Serbia

    Austria-Hungary Declaring War On Serbia
    One month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War.

  • First use of gas weapons by the Germans

    First use of gas weapons by the Germans
    The Germans first used poison gas against Allied troops in April 1915. The gas could kill or seriously injure anyone who breathed it.After the Germans had introduced gas to the battlefield, the Allies began to use it as well. Soldiers would have to use gas mask to protect themselves.

  • SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA

    SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA
    A German U-boat torpedoed the British steamship Lusitania, killing 1,128 people including 128 Americans. The disaster immediately strained relations between Germany and the neutral United States. This fueled anti-German sentiment and set off a chain of events that eventually led to the United States entering World War I.

  • Zimmermann Telegraph

    Zimmermann Telegraph
    British agents intercepted a secret telegram sent by the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmermann. The telegram was bound for Mexico. It offered a German alliance with Mexico against the United States in the event the Americans entered the war.

  • U.S. enters WWI

    U.S. enters WWI
    On April 2,1917, President Wilson ask congress for a declaration of war against Germany. Congress passed the declaration of war, and Wilson signed it on April 6.At the beginning of the war the U.S. could only muster 100,00 men. The most important effect of the U.S. entrance into the war was economic.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    This treaty meant that Germany had to accept full responsibility for the conflict. Germany had to pay the Allies billions of dollars. It had to disarm completely and give up its overseas colonies and some territory in Europe.

  • Senate rejects League of Nations

    Senate rejects League of Nations
    The Senate voted on the treaty with Lodge's changes. It rejected the Treaty of Versailles. Wilson hoped the 1920 election would be a "great and solemn referendum" on the League.