Events of WW1

  • Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

    Franz Ferdinand got shot by the Balck hands
  • Great War begins

    The Start of WW 1 begins
  • Lusitania Sank

    German submarine took out the Ship and killed 1,198 and 128 were Americans that died
  • Battle of the Somme

    The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire.
  • Wilson re-elected

    Wilson was re elected President of the United States
  • Zimmerman not intercepted

    Germany was trying to convince Mexico to help them to fight the U.S Mexico would of recovered the land lost in the Mexican-American War.
  • Selective Service Act

    Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people.
  • Convoy System

    Group of merchant vessels sailing together, with or without naval escort, for mutual security and protection, has a much longer history than sometimes suggested.
  • Espionage Age passed

    United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code (War) but is now found under Title 18, Crime.
  • Russia pulls out of the war

    Russia leaves the war due to country crises
  • US declares war on Germany

    US declares war on Germany for the sinking of Lusitania
  • Flu Epidemic

    An unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus
  • Fourteen Points speech

    Woodrow Wilson gave a speech on his thoughts about the war.
  • Kaiser declares "open season " on ships

    Germans declare unrestricted U-boats Warfar
  • Sedition Act Passed

    The Sedition Act of 1918, enacted during World War I, made it a crime to "willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States" or to "willfully urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of the production" of the things "necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war."
  • Germany signs armistice

    Germany agrees to deal with the consequences of the end results of the war