World War I Timeline

By bubblefish

  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia to kick off WWI

  • Battle of the Marne

  • The Race to the Sea

  • Sinking of the RMS Lusitania; Germany promises not to target passenger liners; anti-German sentiment begins to build

  • Germany resumes USW

  • Germany knocks Russia out of the war (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk)

    This extended from late 1917 to early 1918

  • "Spring Offensive" - Last major German offensive

  • Period: to

    Meuse-Argonne Offensive; final Allied offensive leading to German surrender; also largest American battle of WWI

  • Armistice ends hostilities at 11:00am, 11/11/1918