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Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The assassination of Franz-Ferdinand and Sophie set off a rapid chain of events. -
Austria declared war on Serbia
On July 28, 1914, one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. -
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WW1 Events
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Germany declares war on Russia.
Four days after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, two more great European powers—Russia and Germany declare war on each other; the same day, France orders a general mobilization -
The United Kingdom declares war on Germany, after Germany invades Belgium.
Great Britain declared war on Germany. It was a decision that is seen as the start of World War One. Britain, led by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, had given Germany an ultimatum to get out of Belgium by midnight of August 3rd. In fear of being surrounded by the might of Russia and France, Germany had put into being the Schlieffen Plan in response to the events that had occurred in Sarajevo in June 1914. -
The First Battle of the Marne begins. Trench warfare begins as soldiers on both sides dig in.
"The trench system on the Western Front in World War I—fixed from the winter of 1914 to the spring of 1918—eventually stretched from the North Sea coast of Belgium southward through France, with a bulge outwards to contain the much-contested Ypres salient. Running in front of such French towns as Soissons, Reims, Verdun, St. Mihiel and Nancy, the system finally reached its southernmost point in Alsace, at the Swiss border. In total the trenches built during World War I, laid end-to-end." -
War Zone
Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain, essentially effecting a submarine blockade where even neutral merchant vessels were to be potential targets. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
A British passenger ship, sunk by a German U-Boat. "On May 7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18) erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the more than 1,900 passengers and crew members on board, more than 1,100 perished, including more than 120 Americans". -
Germany Limits Submarines
Reacting to international outrage at the sinking of the Lusitania and other neutral passenger lines, Kaiser Wilhelm suspends unrestricted submarine warfare. This is an attempt to keep the United States out of the war, but it severely hampers German efforts to prevent American supplies from reaching France and Britain. -
Battle of Jutland
An indecisive naval battle between German and British fleets. Involving some 250 ships and 100,000 men, this battle off Denmark’s North Sea coast was the only major naval surface engagement of World War I -
Battle of the Somme
A disastrous Allied offensive at the Somme, where Allied casualties numbered in the millions. -
US Declares War
The United States enters into the first World War, declaring war on the Central Powers. -
USSR withdraws from the War
Russian revolutionaries setup a Communist goverment, attempting to make peace with the Central Powers. -
Germany and Russia Peace
The Germans sign a peace treaty with the new Bolshevik government of Russia. The terms of the treaty give Germany huge tracts of land that had been the Ukraine and Poland, and peace on the Eastern Front allows Germany to shift soldiers to the Western Front, causing serious problems for the French, British, and Americans. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovs
In the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk the war with Russia is ended. Russia renounces any authority in Poland and the Baltic states and acknowledges the independence of Ukraine and Finland. The Central powers do not demand reparations. -
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post world war 1
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Kaiser Abdicated
Wilhem II is overthrown, and a German Republic is made. -
World War 1 Ends
The Central Powers, tired of fighting, sign the armistice that ends World War 1 -
KKK
This is when the second group started. The klan went after African Americans, Christians, and other groups that they thought that didn't belong. -
Adolf Hitler imprisoned
Adolf Hitler imprisoned for sedition against the Weimar Republic; writes Mein Kampf. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler named Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg
