WWI Events

By Robbrik
  • 1918 BCE

    Armistice of WWI

    Armistice of WWI
    -On Nov 11 1918 the Armistice on the Western front happened.
    -The Western front fell silent.
    - The place it happened was in the U.S of America.
    -It happened because it was the end of WWI .
    -It was the first step after WWI (National WWI Museum and Memorial, 2023).

  • Balkan Wars

    Balkan Wars
    -The Balkan Wars Began.
    -It took place in Europe
    - The year this happened was 1912.
    -The young Turks were involved in this event.
    -Two successive military conflicts that deprived the Ottoman Empire of all its remaining territory in Europe (Article History, 2023).

  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

    Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
    -Archduke Franz Ferdinand started the Assassination.
    - Archduke was an assassin that was doing crimes.
    -This all happened in June 1914.
    -The crimes started happening in New Zealand.
    -This eventually led to the outbreak of WWI (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0, n.d).

  • World War I begins

    World War I begins
    -WWI is just about to begin.
    -Archduke Franz Ferdinand is involved.
    -On June 28 1914 WWI Started.
    -The war began in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
    -The Allies were Russia, France, Belgium and Great Britain, but they were later joined by Japan, Romania, China and the U.S (Russell Freedman, 2010).

  • Battle of Gallipoli

    Battle of Gallipoli
    -The Battle of Gallipoli, Somme began.
    -In Dec 1915, Allied commanders were discussing strategies.
    -The Ovillers-la-Boisselle was involved in this event.
    -This was way more painful than WWI.
    -Western Front met. But the German attack on the French at Verdun in February 1916 forced Britain to take the lead in the Somme offensive (Imperial War Museums, 2023).

  • Lusitania sinks

    Lusitania sinks
    -A German U boat Torpedoed the British owned ship.
    - It happened on May 7, 1915.
    - This eventually led up to WWI.
    -It happened in America.
    - A German submarine was involved in this event (Annette McDermott, 2018).

  • Battle of Verdun

    Battle of Verdun
    -The Battle of Verdun began.
    -WWI is the most brutal war of history.
    - Erich von Falkenhayn was involved in this event.
    -Most of the French casualties were getting killed and tortured.
    -Erich von Falkenhayn was involved in this event (henri bidou, 2023).

  • Zimmermann Note

    Zimmermann Note
    -Arthur Zimmermann was involved in this event.
    - There was a telegram in Jan 1917.
    -This led up to WWI.
    -It took place in Europe.
    -The telegram had such an impact on America (Mary Alexander, 2021).

  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution
    -It happened in February 1917.
    -Nicolas II was involved in this event.
    -Russians Defeat in the Russo-Japanese War.
    -Army’s barely fought in WWI.
    - The Japanese war led up to WWI ( Michael Ray ,2023).

  • U.S. enters war

    U.S. enters war
    -The U.S started to enter the war.
    -The war started happening in April 1917.
    -The U.S declared war in Dec 1917.
    -WWI trenches in France.
    -In Jan 1917 the situation in Germany had changed (Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, n.d).

  • Russia withdraws from war

    Russia withdraws from war
    -Russia withdraws from the war.
    -They blame the U.S for undermining security.
    -Russia Withdraws from CFE Treaty.
    -In 1990 the treaty happened.
    -President Vladimir Putin was involved in this event (The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles ,2023).

  • Battle of Chateau-Thierry

    Battle of Chateau-Thierry
    -The battle of Chateau-Thierry began.
    - The end of the battle. The Armistice was signed.
    - The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was the largest operation of the American Expeditionary Forces.
    -They were the final allies for WWI.
    -Romagne is far larger than those in the more commonly known site at Omaha Beach in Normandy (Unknown, 2023).

  • Battle of Argonne

    Battle of Argonne
    -The battle of Argonne began.
    -The war happened September 26 – November 11, 1918.
    -It took place in America
    -In this battle over 26,000 soldiers were killed.
    -The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was a part of the final Allied offensive of WWI. (Unknown, n.d).

  • The Treaty of Versailles signed

    The Treaty of Versailles signed
    -On June 28 1919, The Treaty was signed.
    -The Treaty ended 5 years of WWI.
    -The Treaty of Versailles was involved in this event.
    -Robert Lansing was involved in this event.
    -The Treaty’s so-called “War Guilt” is involved (Mary Crooks, National Geographic Society, 2023).

  • First meeting of the League of Nations

    First meeting of the League of Nations
    – The League of Nations was involved in this.
    -It was a meeting of the League of Nations.
    -The purpose of the league of nations is to supervise the mandated territories.
    - They all gathered in Geneva.
    - It was created after WWI to provide a forum for resolving international disputes (UN Archives Geneva Platform, n.d).