World War 1 causes, events, and post events

sinking of the lusitania

Aug 10, 1915

germans sunk british passnger ship with american passengers on it, therefore causing an act of war against the united states.

U-boat threat

Nov 10, 1915

germany anounces their submarine campaign

germans declare sub warfare

Feb 10, 1916

the germans declare unrestricted warfare on all ships that would be armed

wilsons demands

Apr 18, 1916

on april 18th,1916 president wilson send a list of demands to germany, saying that if they did not stop attacking passenger ships, then the U.S would sever relations.

sussex pledge

May 4, 1916

kaiser agreed to wilsons demands upon stopping the attacks on ships, only because he did not have enough subs to risk war.

final months of peace

Nov 10, 1916

right after wilson was elected again, reports were heard on germany renewing unrestricted submarine warfare.

a shot at peace

Dec 10, 1916

wislon attempted to tell both sides to state their war aims, allies wanted to negotiate privately and only if germany would follow reasonable actions also.

peace without victory

Jan 22, 1917

wilson gave a speech stating his ambitious aims, and he was pushing for peace with all nations.

war matters get worse

Jan 31, 1917

german ambassador said that all ships would be shot on sight no matter what. this caused tension.

zimmermann telegram

Feb 25, 1917

germany sent mexico a telegram trying to get them to declare war on america, this was intercepted by britain and shown to the U.S. this was yet another act of war against us.

arm the ships

Mar 9, 1917

wilson demanded that all merchant ships be armed with weapons.

last act of war

Mar 13, 1917

when they knew ships were armed, the germans u-boats sank 5 merchant ships. this was the final straw.

war!

Apr 7, 1917

wilson asked for a declaration of war, and he recieved it.

trench warfare

Nov 10, 1917

the main type of tactics used during this war was trench warfare, they dug their trenchs only about a hundred yards apart and went at it, this was very harsh.

treaty of versailles

Jan 8, 1918

wilson created his fourtenn points, and they came to a conclusion with other countries that this would be a good srt of guidelines to fllow for further peace.

assault on western front

Mar 21, 1918

the germans launched a huge assualt to the western front, this took a toll on the allied forces.

chateau-thierry

Apr 10, 1918

american forces blocked germans at this town and haulted this massive assault.

coming up short

Jul 15, 1918

germans gave everything they had to get to paris, but they did not succeed and were stopped at marne. everyone knew the war was over by now.

armistice

Oct 6, 1918

germans looked to wilson for armistice, and at the end of the month, turkey,bulgaria, and austria-hungary were out of the war, and now even germany.

armistice

Oct 6, 1918

germany looked to wilson for armistice, by end of the month 3 countries were out of the war.

peace at paris

Jan 10, 1919

many countries met to set guidelines for peace and consequences for germany. wilsons fourteen points were basicallyabandoned except for the league of nations idea.

finalization

Jun 28, 1919

treaty of versailles was finished up, and wilson brught it back home for advison by congress, they never ended up passing it but war never broke ut again.