World War One

  • Schlieffen Plan

    Von Schlieffen started creating this plan
  • Franz Ferdinand's assassination

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed by a member of the Bosnian Serbian nationalist terrorist oganization, The Black Hand Gang.
  • Beginning of World War One

    Austria declared war on Serbia.
    Short term consequence of the assassination of the Archduke
  • Germany declared war on Russia

    Germany had an alliance with Austria-Hungary so they attacked Russia
  • Germany declared war on France

    Germany's war declaration on France is a long term consequenece of the Schlieffen plan.
  • The Great War

    Britain declared war on Germany because of its invation of neutral Belgium.
    The great war is a short term consequence to the invation of neutral Belgium.
  • The Battle of the Somme

    A trench war where around one million soldiers were killed, wounded or missing
  • End of War

  • Paris Peace Conference

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • League of Nations