WWI

By motea907

  • Starting of War

    The war between France and Prussia (became the Ottoman empire) leaving France in defeat,

  • William II

    William the II took his place at the German throne.

  • France and Russia

    France and Russia created an alliance with the help og William the II.

  • Russo-Japenese

    Russo-Japanese Rivarly over Manchuria and Korea had reached it's climax with the Russo-Japanese War, the outcome was that the Russians lost the entire Pacific an Baltic Fleet.

  • Defeat

    The defeat provoked a serious political crisis that led to the Russian Revolution.

  • Powers

    Brought the European powers on the brink of war both were provoked by Germans to cause tension between France and Britain

  • Alliance

    Britain entered an alliance with Russia who was already in a alliance with France this created the Triple Entente.

  • Ottoman Empire

    Austria-Hungary decided to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina that was apart of the Ottoman Empire

  • Peace

    The Italo- Turkish war did not cause any harm to peace in Europe.

  • Balkan League

    Serbia, Greece, Monegenegro, and Bularia formed a league called the Balkan league, military alliance against the Ottoman Empire

  • Declaring War

    Gavrilo Princip assasinates Franz FerdinandAustria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

  • Serbia

    Austria-Hungary presented a ultimatum to Serbia.

  • Secret Treaty Alliance

    Ottoman Empire and Germany sign a secret treaty alliance

  • Germany vs. Franc e

    Germany declares war on France

  • Trenches

    To avoid losing the territory already gained in France, the Germans began digging trenches. The British and French unable to break through the line of trenches, began to dig their own trenches. Throughout the entire war, neither side gained more than a few miles of ground along what became known as the Western Front.

  • War

    In the beginning of the war America declared it's neutrality, by 1916 most Americans supported the Allied powers.

  • Invading

    Austria-Hungary invades Russia.

  • Beggining of War

    In the beginning of the war in August 1914, British airmen who was part of the British Army and commissioned officers had army ranks.When British aircraft took off navigation was based on map reading while in the air and if the lack of clouds allowed, looking out for landmarks on the ground to guide the pilots. If by chance German and Allied airmen came across one another, aerial combat was crude but deadly. Pilots flew in cramped cockpits so parachutes was impossible to carry even if it was all

  • Marching Prevented

    Prevented Germans From marching on Paris

  • Allied and German

    Allied and German forces begin the first of what would be three battles to control the city and its advantageous positions on the north coast of Belgium during the First World War.

  • Gunshots

    Every gunshot and noises stop around Christmas Day and Germany and the British went into no mans land and exchanged gifts. It didn't last long until someone ordered to start the war again.

  • U-boats

    German U-boats sank the Lusitania

  • Germany and Britian

    Germany and Britain were involved in a naval race for mastery of the seas.

  • Verdun

    The casualties from Verdun and the impact the battle had on the French Army was a primary reason for the British starting the Battle of the Somme.

  • Cryptogrpahers

    British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister to the German Minister to Mexico, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.

  • Rockwell

    Kiffin Yates Rockwell was born in 1892 in Newport,Tennessee. Rockwell was accepted by the Service Aeronautique, began flight training in September 1915 and in April became one of the founding pilots in the squadron initially known as the Escadrille Americaine. In May 1916, while on patrol at the front, he became the first American pilot to down an enemy plane.

  • Bloodiest Bodies

    The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history.

  • Underseeboot

    U- Boat is an abbreviation of ‘unterseeboot’, which when translated into English means ‘undersea boat’.During WW1 Germany built 360 U-Boat submarines, 178 of which were lost. In total they were responsible for the loss of more than 11 million tons of allied shipping.

  • Eastern Front

    The Eastern Front of that great war had a profound impact on the remainder of the 20th century, even though the Western Front with its British, French and American combatants achieved somewhat greater fame. More than three-million men died in the fighting, more than nine-million men were wounded.

  • German Empire

    The attack at Passchendaele was Sir Douglas Haig's attempt to break through Flanders. The battle was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies of World War I against the German Empire.

  • Battle of Cambrai

    The Battle of Cambrai was a British offensive and German counter-offensive battle in the First World War.

  • Second Battle of Marne

    The Second Battle of the Marne or Battle of Reims was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during the First World War.

  • WWI

    World War I ends