World War I timeline

By quinn.savage

  • 1900

  • 1901

  • 1902

  • 1903

  • 1904

  • 1905

  • 1906

  • 1907

  • 1908

  • 1909

  • 1910

  • 1911

  • 1912

  • 1913

  • 1914

    President Wilson said the United States would remain neutral

  • June 1914

    The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated

  • August 1914

    The assasination lead to Germany attacking Belgium and France

  • 1915

  • May 1915

    A German U-boat sank the Lusitania, a British passenger ship.

  • 1916

  • 1917

  • January 1917

    German U-boats started sinking Allied ships.

  • April 1917

    Wilson officially declared war against Germany on April 6, 1917

  • 1917

    The Russian Revolution began the spring of 1917

  • 1918

  • January 1918

    Wilson gave his "Fourteen Points" speech to Congress on Jan. 8, 1918

  • 1918

    The troops fought in the trenches with the Allies, they pushed the Germans out of France and back to their own boarder

  • 1918

    The Spanish flu kills more than half a million Americans

  • November 1918

    Peace finally came at 11 am. on November 11, 1918

  • 1919

  • 1919

    The Versailles Peace Treaty was signed by 27 countries. the treaty made Germany pay for rebuilding countries that were attacked.

  • 1920

  • 1921

  • October 1921

    The war officially ended for the US in October 1921. The senate approved separate treaties with Germany, Austria, and Hungary.