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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated.
Franz Ferdinand's assassination on June 28, 1914, at the hand of a Serbian terrorist group the "Black Hand," led to the beginning of World War I. he attempted to restore Austro-Russian relations while maintaining an alliance with Germany. One month later, Austria declared war on Serbia and World War I began. -
Germany declares war on Russia and France. Great Britain declares waron Germany and Austria- Hungary.
1.The next day, Britain sent its own ultimatum to Berlin 2.At noon that day, King Albert finally made a concerted appeal for help to France and Britain, as guarantors of Belgium’s neutrality according to the Treaty of 1839. 3.Hours later, France makes its own declaration of war against Germany, readying its troops to move into the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. -
Hollywood, California, becomes the center of movieproduction in the U.S.
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Alexander Graham Bell makes first transcon-tinental telephone call.
1.Ga. Bell, in New York at the time, made the first call to Thomas Watson, his former assistant, who was in San Francisco. 2.On Jan. 25, 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service as part of a demonstration that included dignitaries in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Jekyll Island. 3.A telephone call, which for marketing purposes is claimed to be the first transcontinental telephone call. -
German U-boats sink the Lusitania, and1,198 people die.
1.on May 7, in the waters of the Celtic Sea, the 32,000-ton ship was hit by an exploding torpedo on its starboard side. 2.Germany justified the attack by stating, correctly, that the Lusitania was an enemy ship, and that it was carrying munitions. 3.It was primarily a passenger ship, however, and among the 1,201 drowned in the attack were many women and children, including 128 Americans. -
Albert Einstein proposes his generaltheory of relativity
1.Einstein completed the General Theory of Relativity - the product of eight years of work on the problem of gravity. 2.In it, he determined that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity. 3.The theory is submitted to Annalen der Physik on Mar. 20, 1916. -
The Battle Of Verdun
1.On the Western Front, the German 5th Army attacks the French 2nd Army north of the historic city of Verdun, following a nine-hour artillery bombardment. 2.The Germans under Chief of the General Staff, Erich Falkenhayn, seek to "bleed" the French Army to death by targeting the cherished city. 3.At first, the Germans make rapid gains along the east bank of the Meuse River, overrunning bombed out French trenches, and capture lightly defended Fort Douaumont four days later without firing a sho -
The Battle Of Somme
1.it resulted in 57,470 British casualties, greater than the total combined British casualties in the Crimean, Boer, and Korean wars. 2.the French, with fewer divisions, suffered only around 2,000 casualties. 3.it is also known as the Somme Offensive -
Russia withdraws from the war.
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The United States declares war on Germany.
1.President Wilson appeared before a joint session of Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Germany in order to "make the world safe for democracy." 2.Germany's renewal of unrestricted submarine warfare and the revelation of a proposed German plot to ally with Mexico against the US prompted Wilson's action. 3.All ships trading with Britain, including those of neutral countries such as the United States would be targets for their submarines and would be sunk without warning. -
The Selective Service Act sets up the draft.
1.authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people. 2.The Act itself was drafted by then-Captain (later Brigadier General) Hugh S. Johnson after the United States entered World War I by declaring war on Germany. 3.The Act was canceled with the end of the war on November, 1918. -
President Wilson proposes the League of Nations
1.The name of this organization is generally traced to the 1908 book La Société des Nations by the influential French peace negotiator Leon Bourgeois. 2.On 8 January 1918, in a major address to the U.S. Congress, he outlined his proposal to end the war and provide a framework for a new postwar international order. 3.Wilson's address centered on his so-called Fourteen Points, which, with some revision, provided the overall framework for the negotiation of an armistice in Europe by 11 November -
The Bolsheviks establish a Communist regime in Russia
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Congress passes the Sedition Act
1.the Sedition Act imposed harsh penalties on anyone found guilty of making false statements that interfered with the prosecution of the war. 2.Those who were found guilty of such actions, the act stated, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both. This was the same penalty that had been imposed for acts of espionage in the earlier legislation. 3.Though Wilson and Congress regarded the Sedition Act as crucial in order to stifle. -
The First World War
1.World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. 2.More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. 3.It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, paving the way for major political changes, including revolution -
Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the vote.
1.On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment, and 2 weeks later, the Senate followed. 2.When Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment passed its final hurdle of obtaining the agreement of three-fourths of the states.- Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification on August 26, 1920, changing the face of the American electorate forever.
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A worldwide influenza epidemic kills over 30 million
