World War I Timeline

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  • Triple Entente alliance formed

    Two international combinations of states that dominated the diplomatic history of Western Europe from 1882 until they came into armed conflict in World War I.

  • Triple Alliance formed

    Secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed on 20 May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I.

  • Russo-Japanese War

    Military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East, becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power.

  • Vladimir Lenin seizes power in Russia

    Lenin was the founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and the architect, builder, and first head of the Soviet Union

  • Austria Hungary annexes Bosnia

    The two were at constant conflict so they both decided to annex Boshia.

  • Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    A teenage sebian nationalist shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.

  • Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia

    After the assasination of the Duke, Austria Hungary declares war on the Serbians

  • Ottoman-Germany alliance formed

    The Ottoman Empire was to enter World War I of the side of Germany when the Germans declared war on Russia

  • Schlieffen Plan put into action

    The Schlieffen Plan was the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilise her forces near the German border.

  • Japan declares war on Germany

    The government of Japan sends an ultimatum to Germany, wanting all German ships from Japanese and Chinese waters

  • Battle of Marne

    The battle of Marne was the first battle fought in World War I

  • Lusitania sinks

    British ship the Lusitania was torpedoed by a german submarine without any warning

  • Battle of Verdun

    The Battle of Verdun was one of the largest battles fought in World War

  • Battle of Somme

    A battle fought by the armies of the British and French Empires agianst the German Empire

  • Zimmerman Telegraph found

    The text of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America.

  • Unrestricted submarine warfare commences

    The lethal threat of the German U-boat submarine raises its head again, as Germany returns to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare it had previously suspended in response to pressure from the United States and other neutral countries.

  • Germany officially unifed

    President Woodrow Wilson had severed diplomatic relations with germany

  • Tsar Nicholas II abdicates

    During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place.

  • US declares war on Germany

    President Wilson appeared before a joint session of Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Germany in order to "make the world safe for democracy." On April 4, Congress granted Wilson's request.

  • Bolsheviks emerge as a political group

    A wing of social Democratic workers party siezed control of the government in Russia and becames the Main Political Power

  • Stalin takes over Russia

    Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower.

  • France loses Alsace & Lorraine to Germany

    The Roman Catholics decided to shift their power within the German Empire

  • Fourteen points proposed

    President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14 point program for world peace

  • Russia signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    In the city of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern-day Belarus near the Polish border, Russia signs a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War I.

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates

    After realizing that Germany would lose the war, Wilhelm abdicated the throne

  • Revolution overthrows Austro-Hungarian Emperor

    Focusing on the collapse of the Habsburg Empire and the incidents in Austria in 1918/20 - are subdivided into four different periods and aspects

  • Treaty of Versailles signed

    World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations.

  • Germany stops reparation payments to France

    Germany made reparations involving serveral payments plans, year of inflation and broken promises