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World war I events
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Czar Nicolas steps down from power
Nicholas II gave up his throne on March 15, ending more than 300 years of rule by the Romanov Dynasty. He and his family were exiled to Siberia and later executed. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum against Serbia, which was partially rejected. Austria-Hungary then declared war, marking the outbreak of the war. -
WWI begins
World War I was the most deadly and destructive war the world had ever seen to that time. More than 25 countries eventually participated, aligned with either the Allied or the Central powers. -
Panama Canal
It is important because it conects to other oceans and helped ships navigate through the oceans -
First battle of the Marne
The french won the war with Germany by ruining their plan that supposedly would've made them won. -
Second battle of the Marne
It was one of the first major battles of WW I. It was a discovery of weak points in the German lines and allowing the allies to take advantage of them. It was the second major clash on the Western Front (after the Battle of the Frontiers) and one of the most important single events of the war -
The Gallipoli campaign begins
The effort to take the Dardanelles strait. The strategy was to attack the region in the Ottoman empire known as the Dardanelles that was a narrow strait to a gateway to the Ottoman capital. -
Germans Fire
The Germans fire shells filled with chlorine gas at Allied lines. That was the first time large amount of gas are used in a battle -
Sinking of Lusitania
1,198 people were drowned, including 128 U.S. citizens. It was fully expected that a declaration of war would follow, but the U.S. government clung to its policy of neutrality. That was one of the events that lead to world war I -
Armenian Massacre
"Ottoman Turks killed thousands of Armenians, who wanted independence from the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, at the beginning of World War I, another 600,000 Armenians died of starvation or were killed by Turks." -
Battle of Verdum
The battle of Verdum was fight during the first world war I on the western front between the German and French armies. -
Battle of Somme
was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles. -
Zimmerman telegram is intercepted
Telegram sent to Mexico promising them thier land that they lost from the U.S -
Germany returns to Unrestricted submarine warfare
ernstorff announced a re-opened German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare (initially introduced and then rapidly abandoned in 1916 owing to U.S. protests. In effect the policy set in place a blockade of Britain and her European allies, to be applied to belligerent and neutral shipping alike -
U.S. declaration of war
The declaration was close ties of friendship between France and the U.S., noting that U.S. independence was originally attained with the assistance of France. -
Communists seize power in Russia
Vladmir Lenin issued his call to power. over threw Russia and new comunist astate and overtook after Czar steped down. -
Russia pulls out of WWI
Russia pulls out of world war I because Bolshevik revolution. in November, the party led by Vladimir Lenin triumphed and Russia pulled out of the war. -
Belleau wood ends
the batle of belleau wood ends with the final expulsive of the Germans from the woods. which marks the farthest Germans advance on Paris, -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russia lost Ukraine, its Polish and Baltic provinces, and Finland. In November 1918, and the Soviet Union eventually regained all the territory except Finland and Poland. -
Germany and Russia Peace
the germans sign a peace treaty with bloshevik goverment of Russia. the terms of the treaty give Germany huge tracts of land that had been the Ukrain and poland. -
Kaiser wilhelm II steps down
launched Germany on a bellicose "New Course" in foreign affairs that culminated in his support for Austria-Hungary in the crisis of July 1914 that led to the First World War. -
Armistice signed
The armistice between the Allies and Germany – also known as the "Armistice of Compiègne" after the location it was signed – was the agreement that ended the fighting in western Europe that started the First World War. -
End of WWI
The Versailles Treaty, signed on June 28, 1919, was the peace settlement between Germany and the Allied Powers that officially ended World War I. The details of the Versailles Treaty had been debated and finalized at the Paris Peace Conference, which opened on January 18, 1919
