WWI Timeline

By yippeeskater513

  • Revolution overthrow Austria-Hungarian Emperor

    The workers and soldiers in Budapest helped Hungary for the uprising a revolution and gain independence.

  • Germany officially unified

    The unification of Germany into a nation state occurred at the Versailles Palace in France.

  • Triple Alliance formed

    A secret agreement formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

  • Russo-Japanese War

    Japan and Russia fight for the control of Korean Peninsula and North-East part of China. Japan won the war.

  • Triple Entente alliance formed

    A understanding treaty formed between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

  • Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia

    Austria-Hungary’s annexation of Bosnia upset the Balkans. Therefore, it enraged Serbia and pan-Slavic nationalists in Europe.

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated

    The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was a cause of the start of WWI.

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

    This war was the start of WWI.

  • Ottoman-German alliance formed

    It was created to strengthen the weak Ottoman military and provide a passage to Britain for Germany.

  • Schlieffen Plan put into action

    It was an German operational plan to deal with the attack from France and Russian, but German underestimate the military of France and Russian, the plan leaded to a failure.

  • Japan declared war on Germany

    Japan sent an ultimatum to Germany for remove all the German ship out off Japanese and Chinese waters, but Germany ignored it. Japanese Navy seized several German colonies and won the war on 7 November 1914.

  • France lost Alsace and Lorraine to Germany

    This was known as the Battle of Lorraine and it was a pre-war strategy to France.

  • Battle of Marne

    This battle was a victory to the Allies against the German Army.

  • Lusitania sinks

    This caused the Americans to join WWI after the German Submarine sank the Lusitania.

  • Battle of Somme

    It was the first offensive war of WWI and the British became more and more involved with the war.

  • Battle of Verdun

    It was a large battle between the German and French armies on the Western Front.

  • Zimmerman Telegraph found

    The Telegraph from German Foreign Office to Mexico, which suggest to create an alliance against the US. Zimmerman Telegraph got intercepted and leaded US declares war on Germany.

  • Unrestricted submarine warfare commences

    Germany navy attacks on all merchant ships of British, which destroy the economy of the US.

  • Tsar Nicholas II abdicates

    The Russian ruler Nicholas II forced to abdicates by insurgents. Imperial regime ended.

  • US declares war on Germany

    American entry into WWI. Result the Treaty of Berlin.

  • Bolsheviks emerge as a political group

    The Bolsheviks reunited and decided to rule Russia and it was ruled by Lenin.

  • Fourteen Points proposed

    The fourteen points proposed created or started peace. It was used in the peace negotiations to end WWI.

  • Russia signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    A peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire) signed at Brest-Litovsk, which damaged Russia a lot.

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates

    November revolution happened in Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II forced to abdicate.

  • Treaty of Versailles signed

    WWI officially stopped by Treaty of Versailles signed.

  • Stalin takes over Russia

    Stalin started control Russia, begins dictatorship.

  • Vladimir Lenin seizes power in Russia

    Lenin died by disease.

  • Germany stops reparation payments to France

    The Germans were required to pay $33 billion dollars for the damage and they were in an outstanding debt.