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Assassination
Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Francis Ferdinand -
War Declaration
Austria declares war with Serbia. -
Christmas Truce
Everyone fighting in WWI stopped fighting on Christmas Eve because it was a holiday. -
Lusitania sinks
a German U-boat fires on a passenger ship called the Lusitania, killing 128 americans -
Sussex Pledge
Germany agreed to give warning before sinking passenger ships. -
Zimmerman Note Found
Britain discovers the Zimmerman note. Germany was trying to convince Mexico to become allies. -
US joins war
the US ends its state of neutrality, and prepares for war -
Armistice
WWI came to an end. It was ended on the eleventh day of the eleventh month at eleven in the morning. -
Treaty of Versailles
A peace treaty that ended the war between Germany and the allied powers. -
League of Nations
an organization that united nations after WWI