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Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Wife Sophie
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić. -
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
Threatened by Serbian ambition in the tumultuous Balkans region of Europe, Austria-Hungary determined that the proper response to the assassinations was to prepare for a possible military invasion of Serbia. -
Germany invaded Belgium and started the fighting
The Imperial government in Germany demanded the right to march through Belgium to attack France (or defend themselves from France, as they saw it). Of course, this would have meant supply the German forces through Belgium as well; the Belgian King and government refused, Germany declared war on Belgium and the British Empire stepped in to expel them - causing the immediate stalemate and destruction of most of West Flanders. -
Austria-Hungary invaded Russia, opening the fighting on the Eastern Front
Eastern Front was a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the battle fronts between lands controlled by Germany and land controlled by Russia or the Soviet Union. -
German Zeppelin bombards Paris.
One of the several methods of modern warfare. -
American Troops Began Landing In France
During World War I, the first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops land in France at the port of Saint Nazaire. The landing site had been kept secret because of the menace of German submarines, but by the time the Americans had lined up to take their first salute on French soil, an enthusiastic crowd had gathered to welcome them. However, the "Doughboys," as the British referred to the green American troops, were untrained, ill-equipped, and far from ready for the difficulties of fighting along the Weste -
United States Declares War On Germany
At 8:30 on the evening of April 2, 1917, President Wilson appeared before a joint session of Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Germany in order to "make the world safe for democracy." On April 4, Congress granted Wilson's request. -
China declares war on Germany and Austria.
On this day in 1917, as World War I enters its fourth year, China abandons its neutrality and declares war on Germany. -
Russia signed an armistice with Germany, ending the fighting on the Eastern Front.
The armistice embraces the land and aerial forces on the front from the Baltic to the Black Sea and also the Russo-Turkish front in Asia Minor. During the armistice the parties concerned obligate themselves not to increase the number of troops on the above fronts or on the islands in Moon Sound, or to make a regrouping of forces. -
Germany launched firtst of its final three offensives on the Western Front.
On March 21, 1918, near the Somme River in France, the German army launches its first major offensive on the Western Front in two years. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, or Maas-Argonne Offensive, also called the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire western front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice (November 11). -
Germany Signs Armistice, Ending World War One
Treaty of Versailles -was a diplomatic agreement signed between Austria and France at Versailles Palace on 1 May 1757 during the Seven Years' War. The agreement expanded on the First Treaty of Versailles from the previous year which had established the Franco-Austrian Alliance. It is commonly known as the Second Treaty of Versailles in relation to this.
