WWI

By Weston Hoke

  • The First World War

    The timespan was 1914- 1918
    War involving nearly all the nations of the world

  • Armenian

    Adolf Hitler would put people on a train and send them out in the middle of nowhere. They would dig a whole and put the people in it and shoot them and put the dirt over. And if people refused, they would hang them.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia, Duchess of Hohenberg one hour before their deaths, June 28, 1914. The assassination was the spark that ignited the war.

  • Blockades

    Germany told Americans to stay off British ships, and they could and would sink them. Germany torpedoed the Lusitania, sinking it with 1200 passengers and crew (including 128 Americans)

  • Unlimited Submarine Warfare

    In 1917, Germany announced ''unlimited submarine warfare'' in the war zone.