Ww1

WORLD WAR ONE

By reagandbrown

  • Assissination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Assissination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    The assassination set off a rapid chain of events, as Austria-Hungary immediately blamed the Serbian government for the attack.

  • Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns (1914)

    Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns (1914)
    Derived from machine gun models the Hotchkiss Model 1914 was one of the most popular heavy machine guns of the war

  • Sinking of the Lusitania (1915)

    Sinking of the Lusitania (1915)
    It helped push the United States into entering the war on the Allied side.

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Zimmerman Telegram
    a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.

  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the 20th century

  • U.S. entry into WWI (1917)

    U.S. entry into WWI (1917)
    President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany.

  • Battle of Argonne Forest (1918)

    Battle of Argonne Forest (1918)
    The Battle of Argonne Forest was part of what became known as the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the last battle of World War I

  • Armistice

    Armistice
    Germany asked the Allies for an armistice rather than surrender

  • Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points

    Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
    The Fourteen Points speech of President Woodrow Wilson was an address delivered before a joint meeting of Congress on January 8, 1918

  • Treaty of Versailles (1919)

    Treaty of Versailles (1919)
    World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919