Event in U.S history: The War To End All Wars

By Noah Ater

  • Bread rationing is introduced in Germany

  • Archduke Ferdinand assassinated

    Archduke Ferdinand assassinated

    Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated by a Serbian nationalist, sparking World War 1
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    World War 1

  • Serbia declares war on Austria Hungary

    Serbia declares war on Austria Hungary

    Serbia declares war on Austria Hungary after Archduke Franz Ferdinand gets assassinated

  • Germany enters the war

    Germany declares war on Russia, Turkey and Germany form an alliance, France mobilizes troops to protect Russia

  • Germany invades Luxembourg

    Germany invades Luxembourg

  • Germany declares war on France.

    Germany declares war on France.

  • The United States remains neutral while Great Britain, Germany, and Belgium deeclare war on each other

    The United States remains neutral while Great Britain, Germany, and Belgium declare war on each other.

  • France declares war on Austria-Hungary

    France declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • Montenegro declares war on Germany

    Montenegro declares war on Germany

  • Britain declares war on Germany

    Britain declares war on Germany

  • Germany invades France, Austria Hungary invades Russian Poland, Japan declares war on Germany

    Germany invades France, Austria Hungary invades Russian Poland, Japan declares war on Germany

  • Russians are enaged at the Battle of Tannenberg

  • Austria- Hungary invades Belgium

    Austria- Hungary invades Belgium

  • Russians are defeated at The battle of Tannenberg aand Germans conduct air raid on Paris

  • Germans engaged and stopped at The Battle of the Marne

  • Germans defeated at the Battle of the Marne

  • In first Battle of Ypres, entrenched Allies fight off German assault while Japan attacks and captures Tsingtao, China

  • Christmas truce observed on the Western front by both sides of the war

  • Turkish army disarms its Armenian troops

  • German saboteurs at work in America

  • Germany threatens submarine warfare against merchant vessels

  • German women demonstrate for peace

  • Germans engage in Second Battle of Ypres with poison gas

  • German U-boat torpedoes the Lusitania

  • Allied forces defeated at the Second Battle of Ypres land in Gallipoli, Turkey

  • Third Allied offensive on Gallipoli fails

  • The first bread lines are seen in Constantinople, Turkey

  • German forces in South-West Africa surrender to General Botha of South Africa

  • In London, women demonstrate for the right to work in war industries

  • Allied Aisne-Marne Offensive

  • Allied troops enter Kut-al-Amara in Mesopotamia

  • Serbia is invaded by Germany, Austria and Bulgaria

  • British nurse Edith Cavell is executed

  • Germans begin Battle of Verdun with heavy artillery barrage

  • Marie Curie involved in the war effort, The Escadrille Américaine, later the Lafayette Escadrille, is formed

  • Belgians deported to Germany as forced labor

  • In the Easter Rising, Irish nationalists fight British occupation

  • Anti-war demonstrations take place in Germany

  • ANZACs arrive in France

  • Submarine warfare is suspended

  • Secret pact divides Middle East between British and French interests

  • German and British navies clash in the Battle of Jutland

  • Arab revolt in the Hejaz begins

  • The Battle of the Somme begins

  • British use tanks for the first time at Somme

  • Armenian massacres denounced in Reichstag

  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is reelected

  • Germans resume unrestricted U-boat campaign

  • The United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany

  • United States is alerted about the Zimmerman Telegram, which reveals German plot against America

  • The British enter Baghdad

  • German U-boat sinks the S.S. Aztec

  • President Wilson delivers his war message to Congress.

  • The United States declares war on Germany

  • Lenin arrives in Petrograd, Russia

  • Mutinies roil the French Army

  • English workers call strikes

  • Herbert Hoover is appointed head of the U.S. Food Administration

  • French Army found guilty of mutiny

  • The concept of “Total War” becomes reality

  • Millions of American men register for service on the first day of the draft

  • Congress enacts the Espionage Act

  • First American Troops Land in France

  • George V renounces his German heritage

  • First American draftees are chosen by lottery

  • British launch Third Battle of Ypres against the Germans

  • German sailors mutiny

  • Suffragists are arrested at the White House

  • First American Combat Soldiers Killed

  • The Balfour Declaration is presented in London

  • Bolsheviks seize power in Russia

  • British troops are defeated at the Third Battle of Ypres against the Germans

  • British tanks gain victory at Cambrai on the Western Front

  • Explosion of munitions ship decimates city of Halifax, Nova Scotia

  • The British capture Jerusalem from the Turks

  • U.S. Congress passes ‘prohibition’ amendment

  • President Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed between Russia and Germany

  • First report of influenza at Camp Funston (Ft. Riley) Kansas

  • The U.S. begins daylight saving time

  • Americans prevail in Battle of Cantigny

  • U.S. Marines launch attack at Belleau Wood

  • U.S. Navy begins laying mines in the North Sea Mine Barra

  • U.S. War Department authorizes Chemical Warfare Service

  • Bolsheviks murder the Czar of Russia

  • Allied Aisne-Marne Offensive

  • Allied forces are defeated at the Aisne-Marne Offensive

  • Americans take offensive at St. Mihiel

  • Americans are defeated at the Campaign of St. Mihiel

  • First phase of the U.S. Meuse-Argonne Offensive underway

  • Germany requests armistice; Allies refuse

  • Hungary separates from Austria

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates

  • Emperor Karl of Austria abdicates

  • Germany signs armistice, causing World War 1 to come to an end