World War I Timeline

By Tywil021

  • Christmas Truce

    The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël) was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front around Christmas 1914. In the week leading up to the holiday, German and British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk.

  • Russian Revolution

    he Russian Revolution was a series of revolutions in the Russian Empire during 1917. The events destroyed the Tsarist autocracy. It helped create the Soviet Union. The first revolution was in February 1917. Tsar Nicholas II was forced to step down and was replaced with a provisional government.

  • The Entry into the War

    The United States' entry into World War I came in April 1917, after two and a half years of efforts by President Woodrow Wilson to keep the United States neutral during World War I. Americans had no idea that war was imminent in Europe in the summer of 1914, and tens of thousands of tourists were caught by surprise.

  • Armistice

    Armistice Day (which coincides with Remembrance Day and Veterans Day, public holidays) is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at ...

  • The Red Baron

    Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I.
    Died April 21, 1918

  • U Boats

    A diesel engine was not installed in a German navy boat until the U-19 class of 1912–13. At the start of World War I, Germany had 48 submarines of 13 classes in service or under construction. During the First World War the SM U-1 was used for training and was retired in 1919

  • The Eastern front

    The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland and other allies, which encompassed Northern, Southern and Central and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945.

  • Chemical Weapons

    "Chemical Weapons" means the following, together or separately: (a) Toxic chemicals and their precursors, except where intended for purposes not prohibited under this Convention, as long as the types and quantities are consistent with such purposes;

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    January/18/1871
    Bismarck completes efforts to unify Prussia and the German kingdoms into a single nation and has King Wilhelm I proclaimed Kaiser.

  • Kriffin Rockwell

    First American to shoot down a enemy plane.

  • Trench Warfare

    A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.

  • Private Gunter

    He was the alst man to die in World War I because he was fighting 1 minute before they told them it was over.