WWI

By kwheeler17

  • Franz Ferdiand was assianated

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

  • Germany declares war on Russia.

  • Germany declares war on France

  • The United Kingdom declares war on Germany, after Germany invades Belgium.

  • - Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia declares war on Germany.

  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces the U.S. will remain neutral.

  • Battle of Ypres begins

  • The unofficial Christmas truce is declared.

  • The Battle of Gallipoli begins.

  • The British ocean liner RMS Lusitania is sunk by German U-boat, U-20

  • The Battle of Verdun begins.

  • The Battle of Jutland, the major naval battle of the war, begins.

  • The United States declares war on Germany.

  • The Battle of Passchendaele (also known as the Third Battle of Ypres) begins.

  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issues his Fourteen Points to peace.

  • Russia signs the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, which is a peace treaty between Russia and the Central Powers.

  • Germany launches the Spring Offensive

  • German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees Germany.

  • The Treaty of Versailles officially ends WWI.