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Assassination of Archduke
On this day in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August. After his death, Austria-Hungary threatened war on Serbia and it just advanced from there. -
Germany Invades Belgium and starts WWI
Germany Invades Belgium and starts WWI. The British Government wrote to the Belgium government and asked for free passage across Belgium for all of their troops so that they could invade France and reach Paris. Belgium denied their free passage through their country. The same day Belgium denied Germany access through their country and started the war with France and Germany. -
Photos From Edwin
Edwin took a picture of the Eiffel Tower and the fountains at the Esplanade du Trocadéro. He visited a lot of places during his deployment and he took pictures of some of the things he saw and the Eiffel Tower was his favorite picture of them all. -
Germans Fire
The Germans used chlorine-filled shells on the western front and they used about 150 tons of chlorine-filled shells. Germans were the first to use chemical warfare and almost wiped out the whole France front line. Later the Germans advanced and started to use more chemicals like xylyl bromides and the Russians reported 1,000 deaths on the eastern front. Germans had the advantage due to chemical warfare. -
The Sinking of The Lusitania
The Lusitania was sunk because Germany had announced in February that any ship that goes through or by the great Britain waters was gonna get shot down by submarines. the ship had 128 Americans on the ship when it was attacked. A merchant ship sunk off the south coast of Ireland and then the British warned the crew on the Lusitania that if they go in that territory their ship is gonna get sunk by torpedoes. the Captain of the Lusitania ignored the request and then got shot down by Germans. -
Germany Limits Submarine Warfare
In September, Kaiser Wilhelm suspends submarine warfare. Kaiser Wilhelm decided to suspend submarine warfare because he was trying to keep the United States out of the war, but the result of this was Germany tried even harder to keep the American supplies from coming into France and Great Britain. Great Britain crossed the Germanys war zone. the German Army sunk the Lusitania and that is mainly the whole reason that Germany ordered unrestricted submarine warfare around Great Britain. -
British Deployed The First Tank
The British deployed the first tank into war at Delville Woods. When the tank was first released everyone had this idea that the tank was gonna be the greatest design of their time, but the people saw that the only thing that the tank was really good for was running over barbed wire and clearing out big paths for troops to cross through. The first tank nicknamed Little Willie and it weighed 14 tons. Then tank could crawl over terrain but it could only crawl over terrain going 2 miles per hour. -
Edwin's Life in WWI
Edwin was a Colonel and he is to serve as commanders of brigade-sized elements (around 5000 soldiers). Edwin would send a letter to his wife and son whenever he had a chance. he was in WWI for the whole thing and fought after too. he has been in many Wars in his lifetime. -
Germany Continues Submarine Warfare
A German politician by the name of Bettman Hollweg went in front of the German Government and said that unrestricted submarine warfare would continue on February 1st. When Germany continues submarine warfare again that ends up leading to the United States coming back into the war and Germany being defeated by the United States. Then he continues to say that even though their enemies have a very good design that they can not run away from that so they decided that they were gonna stay and fight. -
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Edwin Turner Bowden, Sr.
Branch of Service: Army, Highest Rank: Colonel, War: World War, 1914-1918 -
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was a way people could talk when they are far away from each other. It was a message from Germany secretary Arthur Zimmerman that said that Mexico's side with Germany in case of war between Germany and the United States. Another part of the message was that if the United States gives up some of its territories to Mexico so that the United States could be allied with Germany. The United States found the message and decode it. -
The Selective Service Act
This day Congress passed the Selective Service Act which allows for Drafting people into the war. President Wilson passed this law knowing that the Draft will ruin families and cause a lot of problems between families and a lot of other things. The way that they could get this act passed was if they got everyone from the age of 21-30 to sign up for military service. Since the Selective Service Act was passed, 3 million people were called to go into war. -
Edwin dairy
Edwin has two dairies and he used them to stay up to date on things so when he's out of the war he can look back on it. One dairy had 100 pages or more and that was his mainly used book and the other one had only 81 pages filled out -
Treaty of Versailles
Germans had surrendered on November 11, 1918, and then all of the other countries had agreed that they were gonna stop fighting while they were negotiating the terms of peace. It took hundreds of people to negotiate and the final ceremony was held in the hall of mirrors. The Treaty of Versailles was a very good thing. Everyone wanted the war to end because so many people were either killed or injured. There were 8.5 million people that were killed and 21 million that were wounded.
