World War I Timeline

By jasmynarcond
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    World War 1

  • Francis Ferdinand Assasinated

  • Austria declared war on Serbia

  • Germany declared war on Russia

  • Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium.

    Germany had to implement the Schlieffen Plan.

  • Britain declared war on Germany

  • The first Zeppelin raid on Britain took place

  • Britain bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles

  • Italy declared war on Germany and Austria

  • The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians

  • Start of the Battle of Loos

  • Start of the Battle of Verdun

  • British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia

  • Battle of Jutland

  • Start of the Brusilov Offensive

  • Start of the Battle of the Somme

  • End of the Brusilov Offensive

  • Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started

  • USA declared war on Germany

  • France launched an unsuccessful offensive on the Western Front

  • Start of the Third Battle at Ypres

  • Battle of Caporetto

    The Italian Army was heavily defeated

  • Britain launched a major offensive on the Western Front

  • Armistice between Germany and Russia signed

  • Britain captured Jerusalem from the Turks

  • The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany.

  • Germany broke through on the Somme

  • Germany started an offensive in Flanders

  • Second Battle of the Marne started. The start of the collapse of the German army

  • Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo

  • Germany asked the Allies for an armistice

  • Germany’s navy mutinied

  • Turkey made peace

  • Austria made peace

  • Kaiser William II abdicated

  • Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One.