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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand -
shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on this day in 1914 -
Kaiser declares “open season” on ships
Germany uses their U boats to sink all ships -
Kaiser declares “open season” on ships -
Germany uses u boats to sink all ships -
assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Assassinated in Bosnia by a Ultra-nationalist group called the "Black Hand" -
Great War begins -
The trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. -
Great War begins
WW1 begins -
Lusitania sank -
On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans. -
Lusitania sank
Germans sank Lusitania that was a civilian ship carrying americans on board -
Sedition Act passed
designed to protect america's participation in ww1 -
Battle of the Somme -
was one of the largest battles of the First World War. Fought between July 1 and November 1, 1916, -
Battle of the Somme
First battle of ww1 JUL 1, 1916 – NOV 18, 1916 -
Wilson re-elected
Wilson was re-elected -
Wilson re-elected -
The United States presidential election of 1916 was the 33rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916. Incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson defeated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. -
Zimmerman note intercepted
Germany and Mexico Become alliences -
Zimmerman note intercepted -
In the telegram, intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence in January 1917, Zimmermann instructed the ambassador, Count Johann von Bernstorff, to offer significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter any future U.S-German conflict as a German ally. -
US declares war on Germany
US declares war on Germany -
Sedition Act passed -
was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light -
Selective Service Act
A compulsory enlistment of men to join the army -
Selective Service Act -
authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. -
Espionage Act Passed
People are not allowed to speak freely during wartime -
Espionage Age passed -
a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code (War) but is now found under Title 18, Crime. -
Russia pulls out of the war
Russia has a revolution and is forced to leave war -
Flu epidemic
A extremely dangerous type of Influenza -
Fourteen Points speech
A speech made by Woodrow Wilson -
Russia pulls out of the war -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
Flu Epidemic –
he deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet's population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans. -
Fourteen Points speech -
a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
Convoy system
Ships travel in packs for a greater chance of survival -
Convoy system -
driven by the spectacular success of the German U-boat submarines and their attacks on Allied and neutral ships at sea, the British Royal Navy introduces a newly created convoy system, whereby all merchant ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean would travel in groups under the protection of the British -
Germany signs armistice
It ended the fighting on the western front -
Germany signs armistice -
the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last opponent, Germany. -
US declares war on Germany -
four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States declaration of war against the Japanese Empire, Nazi Germany declared war against the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government
