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(EU) Archduke Franz Ferdinand Shot in Sarajevo
On this day, the Archduke of Austria-Hungary was shot by Gavrilo Princip. This event is often considered the spark for World War 1, which would grow because of entangling alliances. -
(EU)Germany declares war on France
Germany knew that France was going to get in the way of them attacking Russia due to their alliance, so Germany decided to strike first -
(EU)Britain declares war on Germany
This war occurred because of Germany disapproval to remove troops from Belgium, who was neutral. Germany getting in control of Belgium would be a big threat to Britain -
(US) Wilsons declaration of neutrality
Wilson declared that the United States would remain “impartial in thought as well as in action. At the time, a vast majority of Americans approved of Wilson’s policy of strict U.S. neutrality. Several U.S. ships on their way to British ports were damaged or sunk by German mines. -
(EU) Battle of Verdun
It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war; French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000. Some 300,000 were killed. -
(EU) Sinking of the Lusitania
It was sunk by a German boat. It carried a lot of weapons and ammunition. The boat was owned by the Cunard Line. -
(US) Wilson Re-election
Woodrow Wilson defeated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. -
(US) America Enters the War/ Congress votes for declaration of war
President Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of a war declaration -
(US/EU) Wilsons Declaration of War
President Woodrow Wilson delivered this address to a joint session of Congress and called for a declaration of war against Germany. The resulting congressional vote brought the United States into World War I. -
(EU/US) Zimmerman Note
It is a secret diplomatic communication from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. -
(US) Congress passes the Espionage Acts
This legislation piece gave postal officials the authority to ban newspapers and magazines from the mails and threatened individuals convicted of obstructing the draft with $10,000 fines and 20 years in jail. -
(EU) Spanish Influenza
It is an oddly deadly influenza pandemic. It infected 500 million people around the world, including people on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic. -
(EU) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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. -
(US/EU) Battle of Chateau-Thierry
It was one of the first actions of the American Expeditionary Forces under General John J. Pershing. It was a battle in World War I as part of the Second Battle of the Marne, initially prompted by a German Spring Offensive. German and local actions at Château-Thierry recommenced on 31 May to 22 July 1918, against the AEF, consisting of troops from both the United States Army and Marine Corps units. -
(EU) Armistice
The armistice that was signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, water and air in WW1 between the Allies and their opponent, Germany.
