Events of World War 1

Russia, France, and Great Britain go to war againest Germany and Austria-Hungary

Jan 1, 1914

The allies go against the Central Powers

World War 1

Period: Jan 1, 1914 to Dec 31, 1919

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Jun 28, 1914

His assassination started World War 1, his wife, and him were assassinated by a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip

Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

Jul 28, 1914

Austria-Hungary determined that the proper response to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was to prepare for a invasion of Serbia

British blockade of German ports begin

Aug 4, 1914

Battle of Tannenburg

Aug 31, 1914

was a German victory against the Russians

First Battle of Marne

Sep 5, 1914

<a href='http://http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/First+Battle+of+Marne' >First Battle of the Marne</a>

Christmas Truce

Dec 14, 1914

On Christmas day both sides stopped fighting and joined together peacefully for Christmas

Battle of Gallipoli starts in Turkey

Feb 1, 1915

The Allied Powers tried to control the sea route from Europe to Russia

Armenian Genocide

Feb 7, 1915

Turkish government wanted to massacre Armenians in the Ottoman Empire

Sinking of the Lusitania

May 7, 1915

ship sank by the Germans, one of the reasons US entered war

British Blockade of German ports begin

Sep 17, 1915

When the war broke out the British government moved quickly to get the supplies of raw materials and foodstuffs to Germany and its allies

President Wilson's Fourteen Points Plan

Jan 1, 1916

<a href='http://http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Woodrow+Wilson%3A+Fourteen+Points' >Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen Points</a>

Battle of Verdun

Feb 21, 1916

Germany vs. France on the Western Front

Battle of Somme

Jul 1, 1916

The allied attacking on the Western Front, one of the most bloodiest miliary battles in history

Zimmerman Note

Jan 1, 1917

<a href='http://http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Zimmerman+Note' >Zimmermann Telegram</a>

German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare

Jan 9, 1917

the war was not going well for Germany on the Western Front and unrestricted submarine warfare was a result of desperation

Mutiny breaks out among French and German soldiers

Apr 1, 1917

took place on the Western Front and one million French soldiers died

US enters WW1

Apr 6, 1917

Enters war because of Sinking of the Lusitania, The Zimmerman Telegram, Economic Ties to European powers, The Russian Revolution

Bolshevik Revolution

Nov 1, 1917

A member of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party that seized power in Russia

Treaty of Brest-Litvosk

Dec 22, 1917

<a href='http://http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Treaty+of+Brest-Litovsk' >Treaty of Brest-Litovsk</a>

2nd Battle of Marne

Jul 15, 1918

Allied counterattacks forced the Germans to retreat to their former position along the Aisne and Vesle rivers

Spanish Influenza

Aug 13, 1918

Was a disease that killed 20-40 million people

Armistice Signed (Fighting in World War 1 ends)

Nov 11, 1918

Germans and Allies called a Peace Treaty to end war

Trench Warfare Underway on the Western Front

Jan 1, 1919

opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug in the ground

Paris Peace Conference Begins

Jan 12, 1919

conference put together by the victory powers to draw up and sign peace treaties with the states that had been defeated in World War I

Treaty Of Versailles

May 11, 1919

Treaty between the Allied and the Associated Powers, brought World War 1 to an end