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Austria declares war against 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. -
Woodrow Wilson announces the United States will stay neutral
George Washington wanted the country to stay neutral and not involve themselves and he wanted to honor that. -
2nd battle of Ypress starts.
It is during this battle that the Germans first use poison gas. -
Battle of Verdun Starts
The Battle of Verdun was the longest battle of World War I and was one of the bloodiest. -
Battle of Juland
The greatest naval battle of the First World War, Jutland was the only full-scale encounter of the British and German battle fleets -
The United States declares war on Germany.
Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict -
The Bolsheviks successfully overthrow the Russian government.
Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. -
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issues his Fourteen Points to peace.
the "Fourteen Points" was a statement by United States President Woodrow Wilson that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe -
The Second Battle of the Marne begins.
On this day in 1918, near the Marne River in the Champagne region of France, the Germans begin what would be their final offensive push of World War I. Dubbed the Second Battle of the Marne, the conflict ended several days later in a major victory for the Allies. -
The Treaty of Versailles officially ends WWI.
This first global conflict had claimed from 9 million to 13 million lives and caused unprecedented damage. Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated.
