WW1 Timeline

  • CLICKBAIT

    CLICKBAIT
    Using propaganda to trick the Germans into thinking they can not classify themselves as "Democrats" Otto Von Bismarck used this method to try to get rid of the Democrat party. 4
  • COMING TOGETHER

    COMING TOGETHER
    Germany and Prussia finally came together and with the last attempt from Otto Von Bismarck, they turned King Wilhelm I to Kaiser. 2
  • TUG-A-WAR FOR COAL

    TUG-A-WAR FOR COAL
    Germany and France go into war and this causes Germany to consume most of the territory where France gets their coal causing France to have to import it from other places. After getting fed up with that they signed a peace treaty with Germany. 2
  • RIVALRY

    RIVALRY
    Germany tries to one up Britain in their industrialization and through trading and other manufactures. 2
  • MAJOR OOF

    MAJOR OOF
    The French and German nationalism became full of hatred and tension which turned into war which happened after the Franco-German War. 4
  • LETS BE FRIENDS

    LETS BE FRIENDS
    Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary become what they call the "Triple Alliance" and since they are positioned in the middle of Europe they are also called "The Central Powers". 8
  • DONT BE RUDE

    Germany and Austria really wanted to get all the goods that Russia is able to get so they were pushing Russia to make a railway in the Balkans so they could get some. This caused major conflict between them. 2
  • MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD?

    MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD?
    A huge group of Armenians were protesting and theTurkish military did not like this resulting in the death of hundreds of Armenians in their own village. 12
  • YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME

    YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME
    Russia and France became an alliance thus giving France the opportunity to finally attack Germany. 9
  • A GOOD SUNDAY RUINED

    A GOOD SUNDAY RUINED
    What is sadly called the Bloody Sunday Massacre which resulted in Tsarist troops killing a bunch of Russian workers because they were trying to petition to the Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
  • ANOTHER MASSACRE

    ANOTHER MASSACRE
    Yet another massacre happens resulting in the death of 15,000 to 30,000 Armenians dead this is called the Adana Massacre. 12
  • LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

    LETS GET DOWN TO  BUSINESS
    The U.S. starts getting ready to help France and fight WWI aside them, they start mobilizing. 5
  • OH NO!

    Austria-Hungary starts getting nervous because Serbia wants to revolt, but they are weak and can barely support themselves. 3
  • OH WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED

    OH WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand along with his wife gets murdered and this makes Austria-Hungary and Germany very mad. 1
  • IT'S CALLED WHAT?

    We finally come up with the term "Home Front" which means that behind the line of war is where the civilians lived. 5
  • THE START OF A DISASTER

    While the Germans and Austria-Hungarians tried to invade and kill the Armenians, the Turkish people came to help them. 12
  • WE ARE BEING LIED TO!

    The United States starts using propaganda to make people feel like they need to join the war and help out, this also made the Americans feel as if the Germans were evil and vicious. 4
  • RUNNING OUT!

    RUNNING OUT!
    Japan was running out of resources when the war started they were in need of some resources. 3 & 5
  • GETTING EVEN

    GETTING EVEN
    Remember when a Serbian killed Ferdinand? Well to get revenge the emperor of Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.1
  • AN ACT OF KINDNESS

    AN ACT OF KINDNESS
    Russia helps out Serbia with the war against Austria-Hungary and Germany since they are allies. 1
  • TOO FAST?

    Russia was way too fast for the German Army which threw them way off course. 5
  • DISASTER STRIKES

    Now the Germans and Austria-Hungary start to get ready to go to war to France, Russia, and Belgium. 1
  • A DEALBREAKER?

    Of course the Germans invade Belgium, but this causes France having to join the war because of the alliance with them. 19
  • SPITTING SOME TRUTH

    SPITTING SOME TRUTH
    The Russian Jews fought against some of the Tsarists because they were getting played by propaganda but they wouldn't have fought them if Germany didn't tell them to. 3
  • LOSING TOO MANY PEOPLE

    LOSING TOO MANY PEOPLE
    Sadly more deaths happened after the Battle of Tannenberg. Around 182,000 casualties, and another war between Germany and Russia. 8 & 11.
  • WE GOT A PROBLEM

    Since they were basically cool with everyone in the war, Italy decides to go neutral in the war, this created a ton of problems. 7
  • GUARDS UP

    Germany starts really guarding themselves and getting more and more guns and other deadly weapons. 6
  • WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK

    WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK
    Great Britain decides to go to war because Germany invades Belgium, Great Britain and Belgium are alliances with each other. 1
  • LIES TOLD BY AN INDIOT

    LIES TOLD BY AN INDIOT
    Since people were getting more worried about the war, the government decided to use propaganda to change their moods. 19
  • DO WE LOOK GOOD?

    To make themselves look good Britain had journalists write amazing stuff about them and not so good stuff about the enemy. 4
  • GETTING TO THE POINT

    GETTING TO THE POINT
    What really makes the World War 1 start was the first battle of Ypres in Belgium. 7
  • OH YOU'RE SCARED?

    To scare Belgium and to make them lower their weapons almost, they came into England and looted their stuff. 5 & 6
  • THE START OF SOMETHING NEW

    THE START OF SOMETHING NEW
    To get more of an advantage, Germany decides to use submarines to sink other ships. It seems that more and more countries are starting to not like Germany because they are sinking their ship...6
  • HOLLYWOOD IS NOT WHAT IT IS ALL RACKED UP TO BE?

    In the U.S. movies were being made supporting the KKK, can you believe that? 3
  • THE MAKING OF MURDER

    A committee of union planned an attack on people who still lived under the Ottoman Empire. 3 & 12
  • TIME TO MAKE SOME NEW FRIENDS

    TIME TO MAKE SOME NEW FRIENDS
    Italy wants to start fighting against Austria-Hungary and Germany so they join the alliance. 7
  • LIFE IS LIKE A BATTLEFIELD

    LIFE IS LIKE A BATTLEFIELD
    Right after Italy joins the Allied Powers there is an attack on the Alpine Frontier
  • WHAT'S THE POINT OF BEING SMART

    Ottoman troops took all the smart Armenians and killed them so that they wouldn't have anyone try to become leader or out smart the Ottomans. 12
  • WHAT A SHIP WRECK

    WHAT A SHIP WRECK
    As the war took over the seas as well as the land, many boats were sinking. Well a boat called the lusitania was sunk and killed over 1,200 and 128 were Americans, this was because they were thought to be bringing supplies over to their ally. 7 & 10
  • BUILDING WALLS?

    Jews had to move closer to the inside of Russia because Germany was moving closer to Russia. 16
  • HOUSTON WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM

    HOUSTON WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM
    Someone misinformed the Gallipoli soldiers and when they got out of the trenches they were all attacked and killed. 8
  • SOME CASUALTIES

    Battle of Passchendaele had 848,614 casualties
    The Battle of Verdun had 976,000 casualties
    The First Battle of Marne had 483,000 casualties 11
  • MAKING HEADLINES

    MAKING HEADLINES
    When the U.S. had talks about doing the war, German newspapers were quick to write about it and tell all about it to their people. 4
  • DROPPING THE BOMB (LITERALLY)

    DROPPING THE BOMB (LITERALLY)
    A British war secretary was killed in the ocean of Scotland because of a German mine.
  • TOO MANY

    TOO MANY
    There were 1,219,201 casualties in the Battle of Somme. This battle was near France. 11
  • DO YOU SWEAR TO SPEAK OF THE TRUTH?

    DO YOU SWEAR TO SPEAK OF THE TRUTH?
    Wilfred Owen wrote about the war and what "really" happened during it and all the damage it has done to the countries involved. 20
  • BECOMING A HERO?

    BECOMING A HERO?
    People killed Rasputin because he was trying to make the political view what he wanted. So they though they were doing the right thing.9
  • IT'S GOING DOWN!

    Since the war was going on they needed to have more soldiers so they were making men who already had jobs to go to war. This really hurt the Russian economy, causing the Russian Revolution. 7
  • TIME TO DIP

    TIME TO DIP
    Most of the time the soldiers were scared and unexperienced this caused them to leave and abandon their posts and some just flat out left to join the revolution. 19
  • A SAFE PLACE

    A SAFE PLACE
    To create a safe place for democracy, President Woodrow Wilson decided to go to war with Germany. 10
  • AFRAID OF HEIGHTS?

    AFRAID OF HEIGHTS?
    What would have been really helpful for war tactics was to be on high ground. It gives some advantage so the soldiers can overlook the enemy, sadly this was ignored in the Battle of Vimy Ridge. 8
  • DEATH IS INEVITABLE

    DEATH IS INEVITABLE
    When the British soldiers started attacking the enemy's trenches not just for one side but from all over, they had the best advantage. This led to 278,000 casualties. 11
  • OH NO YOU DIDNT

    The U.S. finally decides to go full force into the war because they found out that Germany sent a message to Mexico saying that they should invade the U.S. 10
  • PICASSO WHO?

    PICASSO WHO?
    As the war went on C.R.W Nevison painted pictures that had to do with what war was all about and the things he saw. 20
  • DONT BOTHER REPLANTING

    There was a painting that got famous and it looked like what the land was after the war. There person who created it was Pual Nash. 20
  • HELP A FRIEND OUT

    When the United States joined the war it really helped out France and all the countries fighting against Germany. The Germans ended up withdrawing but not until much later. 7&10
  • SORRY WE GOT TO GO

    Since the Russian revolution was taking a big toll on Russia's economy they ended up having to withdraw because it was too much to handle. 9
  • CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP

    The Russian Revolution happened because the society thought they were not equal and they wanted to be socially equal and to have an equal democracy. 9
  • UNCLE WHO?

    UNCLE WHO?
    Uncle Sam became very popular term to use when making a propaganda poster, some still use it today. 4
  • BASICALLY STUDENT LOANS

    If your'e wondering why the U.S. is always is in debt, well, it started when they lended 2.25 million dollars to our allies. They never even paid back. 10
  • ONE UP THEM

    To try to up Serbia before going to war with them Austria-Hungary starts to mobilize before even talking about war so that they can get a head start. 5
  • DO WE HAVE ANY TRUST HERE?

    There was a political party that said and made everyone believe that they would get out the debt that was caused because of war . The party was called The Bolshevik Party. 9
  • THE OUTLIER?

    Since most of the party were not that big, communism took up most of the Political Party. Meaning most people believed in that. 19
  • I NEED SOME ATTENTION!

    To gain popularity at their home town, Lenin and some communists withdrew from the war. 19
  • FORTUNE TELLER?

    Wilson made up some list on fourteen things that he thought the war should end. Some people really did believe in it. 13 & 14
  • GET PUT IN YOUR PLACE

    The German front was moving and it was making harden the soldiers because they had to change the way they fought. 8
  • IT'S ALIVE!

    IT'S ALIVE!
    From Wilson's fourteen things on how he thought the war should end, came the League of Nations. 15
  • JOKES ON JOKES

    After hearing all about Wilson's ideas, the Allied Forces found it crazy and basically laughed in his face
  • BYE BYE

    BYE BYE
    Everyone knew that Russia was not in the right economic state to be fighting a war, so Germany signed a treaty that basically kicked Russia out of the war. 9
  • THERE'S A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING

    THERE'S A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING
    Germany was getting more violent and reckless so they destroyed so much of theWestern front, nobody saw anything like it. 11
  • YOU TRIED

    YOU TRIED
    Because the U.S. was using boats to ship supplies to other countries, German U- boats tried to stop them but they failed. 8
  • TOO MUCH TO HANDLE

    TOO MUCH TO HANDLE
    There was a battle going on between Britain, France, the U.S., and Belgium against Germany. They were one step ahead Germany, but that didn't mean it was quick it took awhile. The Spanish flu also broke out. 11
  • WILL YOU FORGIVE US? NO!

    The Germans asked for peace, but the U.S. said no and kept fighting on, this was because of the fourteen points. 13 & 14
  • THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

    Since most countries were all allied up, when it came to ww2, it didn't the long for the allies to be paired up again. 17
  • KARMA IS BACK

    KARMA IS BACK
    Everyone was blaming Germany for the war even though it was Austria-Hungary that asked Germany to help them out. Hitler saw this and wanted to basically get revenge and become the "Third Roman Emperor" 17
  • WAVE YOUR WHITE FLAG

    WAVE YOUR WHITE FLAG
    Germany finally decided to surrender on November 11th, everyone was finally happy that the war was over. 13 & 15
  • IN CAME PICASSO

    IN CAME PICASSO
    After the war, Picasso decided to come up with a new concept to art, called surrealism. 20
  • YOU'VE REACHED THE LIMIT

    YOU'VE REACHED THE LIMIT
    The Allied Powers came up with a treaty that talked about some new boundaries and how Germany had to pay all the expenses that the countries had to face during the war. Germany had no part in it. It was called the Treaty of Versailles. 13 & 14
  • STARTING TO FEEL BAD FOR GERMANY

    Germany lost almost half other land and they had to pay the cost of the war so their economy suffered as well. 14 & 18
  • THIS LAND IS OUR LAND

    Since the treaty, Germany's land that they lost was given to numerous countries. 16 7 18
  • DILEMMAS

    Belgians were discussing whether they should leave Belgium and go under German's rule.
  • NEVER BEEN MARRIED BUT FELT DIVORCED

    Austria-Hungary finally splits up, surprisingly this upset a lot of people. 16 & 18
  • SHARING IS CARING

    The Treaty of Versailles were for all around to different parts of Russia. 16 & 18
  • CON MAN?

    Since the British economy was struggling, they literally pid Germany to buy their resources so they can get money. 17
  • A WASTE

    Even though Germany was getting paid to buy British goods it didn't help because they still had to pay for the war. 17
  • MAJOR OOF FOR THE ECONOMY

    I know this was coming but, Germany's economy basically went downhill because of all the stuff they had to repay for. Also they were losing all the coal mines they had to France. 17
  • ALONE AND STRANDED

    Luckily for Great Britain, Their borders never changed because of they are on a island 18
  • WAIT WHAT?

    WAIT WHAT?
    President Wilson got a noble prize for the U.S. not joining the League of nations. 15
  • THE IRONY

    People say that maybe if the U.S joined the League of Nations that WW2 Could have been avoided. 15
  • REJECTED! YEAH YOU JUST GOT REJECTED!

    The U.S. rejects the invite to join the League of Nation, because they liked being isolated.
  • TIME AFTER TIME

    The government organization League of Nations, was as it is because of the Paris Peace Conference. 15
  • REMEMBERING THE WORST

    After World War One, Some people started writing about all that went down with ww1. Maybe this was a way for some people to cope with the PTSD. 20