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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife
On June 28 1914 Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated and people did not like it. He and his wife were shot to death by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia. They were a well known terriost group called the Black Hands. -
Austria-Hungary Declares War on Serbia
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Germany Declares War on Russia
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Germany Decalres War on France
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Germany Invades Belgium
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Great Britain Declares War on Germany
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Battle of Marne
The Battle of Marne was a First World War battle fought from September 5th to 12th,1914. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German Army under Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke. -
Sinking of Lusitania
As Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The ship was identified and attacked by the German ship and sank in 18 minutes. -
Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun was fought from February 21st to December 18th 1916 during the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies, on hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. -
Sinking of Sussex
A U.S. ship attacked and later sank by Germany in 1916. Later Germany didn't want the U.S. to join the war and created a Sussex Pledge but the U.S. didn't really care about the pledge and that ended their neutriality. -
Battle of Somme
The Battle of Somme also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. -
The Zimmerman Note is Intercepted
The Zimmerman Note was a 1917 proposal from the German Empire offering a military alliance with Mexico, in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. The proposal was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence. -
Russian Revolution Breaks Out
In 1917, two revolutions swept through Russia ending centuries of imperial rule and setting in motion political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. -
US Declares War Against Germany
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany. On April 6, Congress granted the request and the United States was formally at war with Germany. -
Battle of Argonne Forest
The Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front.
