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(EU) Archduke Franz Ferdinand Shot in Sarajevo
On this day, THe Archduke of Austria-Hungary was shot by Garvilo Prncip. This event is seen as the start of WW1, which would grow to become of entangling alliances -
(EU) Germany declares War on France
After Germany declared war on Russia, they decided to declare war on France -
(EU) Britain Declared war on Germany
Because Germany refused to move out their troops in Belgium, the Britain Empire declared war on the German's -
(EU/US) Sinking of the Lusitania
Germany had a submarine that ended up torpedoing the Lusitania Ship 1,128 including 128 Americans -
The Battle of Jutland (EU)
The largest naval battle of the war is fought between Britain and Germany in the North Sea. -
(US) Election of Woodrow Wilson
The Election of Wilson in 1961 was on November 7th. He said that as president he would not take the United States into war and wanted to keep that neutrality, but later on did indeed take us to war -
(EU/US) Zimmerman Telegraph
Great Britain deciphered a not Germany intended to only be for Mexico. Then Britain decided to send the deciphered note on March 29 -
(US) The United States Declares War/ Congress Votes to Declare War
After finding out what Germany was planning with Mexico, President Wilson later on asks Congress for a request of declaration of war. Congress signed and The United States declared war with German -
Congress passes the Espionage Acts (US)
The United States made an act to where people that live in the US could not speak freely on what they felt about the war or anything to do with that. -
Spanish Influenza (EU/US)
The Spanish Influenza, or the Spanish flu was a pandemic that infected 500 million people around the world. It had a virus that made it very deadly. It started January 1918 - and ended around the end of 1919. -
Armistice (EU/US)
It was a temporary closure of any harm to warring parties, for peace. World War I ended with the armistice of 1918. -
The Battle of Verdun (EU)
550,000 French and 450,000 German casualties but the French ended up winning that war.
