WW1

By dee900

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife was are assassinated.

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

  • Germany declares war on Russia.

  • Germany declares war on France.

  • The United Kingdom declares war on Germany

  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces the U.S. will remain neutral.

  • The Battle of Tannenberg begins.

  • The First Battle of the Marne begins.

  • Battle of Ypres begins.

  • The unofficial Christmas truce is declared.

  • Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain

  • The Dardanelles Campaign begins.

  • The Dardanelles Campaign begins.

  • The Battle of Gallipoli begins.

  • The British ocean liner RMS Lusitania is sunk by German U-boat

  • The Battle of Verdun begins.

  • The Battle of Jutland

  • The Battle of the Somme begins.

  • The United States declares war on Germany.

  • The Battle of Passchendaele

  • The Bolsheviks successfully overthrow the Russian government during the 1917 Russian Revolution.

  • The armistice agreed upon between the new Russian government and the Central Powers goes into effect.

  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issues his Fourteen Points to peace.

  • Russia signs the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, which is a peace treaty between Russia and the Central Powers.

  • Germany launches the Spring Offensive.

  • The Second Battle of the Marne begins.

  • German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees Germany.

  • Germany signs the armistice at Compiegne

  • The Treaty of Versailles officially ends WWI.