World War I

By hunterfleming

  • Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and Russia.

  • Germany declares war on Russia.

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    World War I

  • Germany declares war on France.

  • Germany declares war on neutral Belgium

  • Britain declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary

  • Canada joins the war

  • Turkey enters the war on the side of the Central Powers.

  • Germany declares a submarine blockade of Great Britain. Any ship approaching England is considered a legitimate target.

  • Henry Ford's peace ship, Oskar II, begins its voyage to Europe.

  • President Wilson, publicly calls for the German's to stop their submarine policy of sinking all ships in enemy waters without warning.

  • Germany renounces submarine policy.

  • Tanks introduced for the first time on the Somme battlefield by the British.

  • Germany resumes U-boat attacks under search and destroy rules.

  • Woodrow Wilson is re-elected in the USA with a campaign slogan of "He kept us out of the war".

  • Germany resumes unrestricted U-boat warfare.

  • The Zimmermann Telegram is passed to the US by Britain, detailing alleged German proposal of an alliance with Mexico against the US.

  • US President Woodrow Wilson's war cabinet votes unanimously in favour of declaring war on Germany.

  • United States comes out of neutrality and declares war on Germany, thus entering the First World War.

  • Greece enters the war on the side of the Allies.

  • The United States declares war on Austro-Hungary.

  • President Woodrow Wilson delivers his fourteen points speech to the U.S. Congress.

  • Germany and Austria send peace notes to US President Woodrow Wilson requesting an armistice.

  • Allies accept the fourteen points.

  • Germany begins negotiations for an armistice with the Allies in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne.

  • Armistice day as fighting ceases at 11am - World War I ends. Central Powers are forced to annul the Brest-Litovsk Treaty.

  • The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, officially ending the Great War.