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WW1

By Tgray02

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated by Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Prinsip.
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    World War I

  • World War I Begins

    Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Germany declares war on Russia

    One month after Archduke Franz is assassinated the world erupts into war.

  • Germnay declares war on France and invades Belgium

    Germany implements the Schlieffen Plan which was based on the theory that they would be at war with France and Russia at the same time. The Schlieffen Plan was a plan that was stared in 1897.

  • Britain declares war on Germany

  • Germany invades France

  • Germans defeat Russians at the Battle of Tannenburg

  • Germans conduct air raid on Paris

    This attack terrorizes civilians.

  • German invasion of France stopped in the First Battle of the Marne

    German troops are forced to the north side of the Marne River which causes the Schlieffen Plan to fail.

  • Turkey enters the war on Germany's side

  • Japan attacks and captures Tsingtao, China

    Tsingtao is a port city held by the Germans since 1898.

  • First Battle of the Ypres

  • Christmas Truce Observed

  • Turkish army disarms its Armenian troops

  • Second Battle of Ypres

    Germans use poison gas on 10,000 allied troops, killing over half of them.

  • Allies land in Gallipoli, Turkey

  • The "Lusitania" is sunk by a German U-boat

    The "Lusitania", a passenger ship is torpedoed by the Germans killing a total of 1,198 passengers including women and children. 124 were U.S. citizens.

  • Italy declares was on Germany and Austria

  • Third allied offensive on Gallipoli fails

  • Germans capture Warsaw from the Russians

  • Germany, Austria and Bulgaria invade Serbia

  • Germans begin the Battle of Verdun in France

  • Submarine Warfare is suspended

    Germany agrees to end their submarine warfare in hopes to avoid the U.S. entering the war on the side of the Allies.

  • The Battle of the Somme begins

  • President Woodrow Wilson is reelected

  • Germans resume U-boat campaign

  • The U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Germany

    Germany's decision to resume U-boat warfare is considered unacceptable and a "threat to Freedom of the Seas".

  • U.S. finds out about the Zimmerman telegraph

    This telegraph reveals a German plot against America

  • German U-boat sinks the "S.S. Aztec"

  • The U.S. declares war on Germany

  • Mutinies roil the French Army

    The mutinies last until May 20, 1917

  • Millions of men register for service on the first day of the draft

  • Congress eneacts the Espionage Act

  • First American Troops land in France

  • Brithish Launch Third Battle of Ypres against the Germans

    This battle lasted until November 10, 1917

  • The Balfour Declaration is presented in London

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed between Russia and Germany

  • Americans win the Battle of Cantigny

  • U.S. Marines launch attack on Belleau Wood

  • U.S. Navy plants mines in the North Sea

  • The U.S. authorizes chemical warfare service

  • Bolsheviks murder the Czar of Russia

  • Hungary separates from Australia

  • Germany sign armistice

  • Germany and allies sign the peace treaty

    World War I ends on June 28, 1919