WWI Project

By ortegavictor

  • Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire

    Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated by a Bosnian Serb nationalist in Sarajevo.

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated by a Bosnian Serb nationalist in Sarajevo.

  • World War I begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

    World War I begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • trenches

    trenches

  • Germany declares war on Russia, France, and Belgium. Britain declares war on Germany. Austria declares war on Russia. Montenegro declares war on Austria. France declares war on

    Germany declares war on Russia, France, and Belgium. Britain declares war on Germany. Austria declares war on Russia. Montenegro declares war on Austria. France declares war on

  • The First Battle of the Marne begins

    The First Battle of the Marne begins

  • The British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. It sinks in just 18 minutes,

    The British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. It sinks in just 18 minutes,

  • The German army initiates the modern era of chemical warfare by launching a chlorine attack on Allied trenches

    The German army initiates the modern era of chemical warfare by launching a chlorine attack on Allied trenches

  • The British and German fleets meet 60 miles off the coast of Jutland, Denmark, in the war’s only major encounter between the world’s two largest sea powers

    The British and German fleets meet 60 miles off the coast of Jutland, Denmark, in the war’s only major encounter between the world’s two largest sea powers

  • The United States declares war on Germany

    The United States declares war on Germany

  • Germany and the Allies conclude an armistice based largely on Wilson’s Fourteen Points.

    Germany and the Allies conclude an armistice based largely on Wilson’s Fourteen Points.