ww1

By chris bosh neck
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    WWI

  • Francis Ferdinand assassinated

  • Austria declared war on Serbia

  • Germany declared war on Russia

  • Turkey entered the war on Germany’s side. Trench warfare started to dominate the Western Front.

  • Allied troops landed in Gallipoli

  • The “Lusitania” was sunk by a German U-boat

  • The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians

  • The Allies started the evacuation of Gallipoli

  • Conscription introduced in Britain

  • Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister

  • British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia

  • Start of the Battle of the Somme

  • USA declared war on Germany

  • Britain launched a major offensive on the Western Front

  • Armistice between Germany and Russia signed

  • The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany

  • Germany asked the Allies for an armistice

  • Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One.