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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
On June 28, 1914 Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were touring Sarajevo in an open car, with surprisingly little security, when Serbian nationalist Nedjelko Cabrinovic threw a bomb at their car; it rolled of the back of the vehicle and wounded an officer and some bystanders. -
Great War begins
The trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria -
Kaiser declares "open season" on ships
Proclaimed that the North Sea was a war zone -
Lusitania sank
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday May 7 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany -
Battle of Somme
The Battle of the Somme also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire -
Wilson re-elected
Wilson won against Charles Evans Hughes in the 1916 election -
Zimmerman note intercepted
A note sent from Germany to Mexico trying to get them to Ally with Germany -
US declares war on Germany
The US declared war on Germany because of their use of unrestricted submarines warfare and also of the Zimmerman Note -
Selective Service Act
It authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. -
Convoy system
Ships would sail together for protection and security -
Espionage Age passed
Made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country’s enemies. -
Flu Epidemic
1918; an unusually deadly influenza epidemic -
Fourteen Points speech
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I -
Russia pulls out of the war
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3rd 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers that ended Russia's participation in World War 1 -
Sedition Act passed
Extended the espionage act by nobility speech and expression of opinion -
Germany signs armistice
The agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front.
