WW1

By Kaydenbrady03

  • assassination

    assassination
    Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie Chotek, are assassinated by Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip. Austria suspects Serbia is responsible.

  • declaration of war

    declaration of war
    Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

  • invasion

    invasion
    Germany invades Belgium, but is stopped at the First Battle of the Marne. The Schlieffen Plan fails.

  • start of trench warfare

    start of trench warfare
    First Battle of Ypres: Attempting to outflank each other, Allied and German troops were unable to win a decisive victory, leading to the onset of trench warfare.

  • declaration of war

    declaration of war
    Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire

  • submarine warfare

    submarine warfare
    Germany initiates a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, whereby all merchant ships, including those of neutral countries, would be subject to attack.