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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
He held significant influence over the military, and in 1913 he was appointed inspector general of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces. -
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Germany invades Belgium
Germany invaded Belgium to avoid the French fortifications along the French-German border, the troops had to cross Belgium and attack the French Army by the north. Belgians refused to let them through, so the Germans decided to enter by force and invaded Belgium. -
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Battle of Marne
The First Battle of the Marne was marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare that was to characterized in World War One. -
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Gallipoli Campaign
The Gallipoli campaign was a military campaign in the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula -
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Battle of Verdun
French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war. -
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Battle of the Somme
was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and French Third Republic against the German Empire and was fought on both sides of the upper reaches of the River Somme in France. -
Death of Grigori Rasputin
he was an peasant who underwent a religious conversion as a teenager and proclaimed himself a healer with the ability to predict the future, won the favor of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra through his ability to stop the bleeding of their hemophiliac son. -
Tsar Nicholas abdicates
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated from the Russian throne. This brought to an end the Romanov dynasty that had ruled Russia for over three hundred years.We have thought it well to renounce the Throne of the Russian Empire and to lay down the supreme power. -
Lenin's return to from exile
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. After his exile ended in 1900, Lenin went to Western Europe, where he continued his revolutionary activity. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
By the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia recognized the independence of Ukraine, Georgia and Finland. They gave up Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to Germany and Austria-Hungary; and ceded Kars, Ardahan and Batum to Turkey. -
Armistice ending WWI
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
The Treaty of Versailles was the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. It was signed on June 28, 1919, by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles and went into effect on January 10, 1920. -
US declares war on Germany
United States Congress declared war upon Germany, hours after Germany declared war on the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan. The vote was 88–0 in the Senate and 393–0 in the House.