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(EU) Archduke Franz Ferdinand shot in Sarajevo
Archeduke of Austria-Hungary was shot by Gavrilo Princip. often considered the spark of WWI, which grew due to entagling alliances -
(EU) Austria-Hungary Declares war on Serbia
one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War -
(EU) Germany Declares war on France
Germany declares war on France and invades the neutral Belgium. The begining of a downward spiral into WWI -
(EU) Britan Declares war Germany
Britan is in alliance with France. when Germany takes over Belgium, Britian retaliates by taking military action. Spiralling downward into WWI -
(EU) First Battle of the Marne begins.
The Germans had advanced to within 30 miles of Paris, but over the next two days, the French are reinforced by 6,000 soldiers who are transported to the front by hundreds of taxis. The Germans dig in north of the Aisne River, and the trench warfare that is to typify the Western Front for the next four years begins. -
(EU/US) Sinking of the Lustania
Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany.Torpedoed by German U-boat U-20; 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard killed, leaving 761 survivors., Turned international opinion against Germany. major contributor U.S entering the war. -
(EU) The Battle of Verdun begins.
Over the next 10 months, the French and German armies at Verdun, France, suffer over 700,000 casualties, including some 300,000 killed. By the battle’s conclusion, entire French villages had been wiped from the map; they were subsequently memorialized as having “died for France.” More than a century after the battle’s conclusion, over 10 million shells remained in the soil around Verdun, and bomb-clearing units continued to remove some 40 tons of unexploded munitions from the area annually. -
(US) Wilson wins Reelection
Incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson defeated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. Wilson broke with party bosses and won the passage of several progressive reforms. His success in New Jersey gave him a national reputation as a progressive reformer. -
(US/EU) Zimmerman note
British decodes German note to Mexico. Germany declares unrestricted submarine warfare, and suggests Mexico should attack the U.S and join Germany in alliance. US recieves the note in March of 1917. -
(US) US Enters the war
Congress votes go for declaration of war. product of a combination the sinking of the Lustania, Germany's increasing nagging for violence, and the Zimmerman note inching them closer to war. -
(US) Congress passes the Espionage Acts
Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1918, which made it a federal offense to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the Constitution, the government, the American uniform, or the flag. The government prosecuted over 2,100 people under these acts. The U.S. Congress passed the Espionage Act in 1917 to prohibit US citizens from disclosing any information related to the war. -
(EU/US) Spanish Influenza
The 1918 influenza pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people around the world, including people on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic. -
(EU) Russia signs the treaty of Brest-Litovsk
After months of delays, The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers. Russia surrenders its claim to Ukraine, to its Polish and Baltic territories, and to Finland. ending Russia's participation in the war. -
(EU/US) Armistice
signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had been agreed with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. an agreement in which both sides agree to stop fighting, rather than a surrender.
