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begin WWI
A truce or temporary cessation of hatred, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as “the Great War.” -
Russian army defeated at Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes
The Battle of Tannenberg took place in August 1914 and The Battle of the Masurian Lakes took place in September, soon after Tannenberg. Both battles were conclusive victories for Germany's Eighth Army and left the Russians off balance until Spring 1915. By the end of the battles, Russia lost over 250000 men and was pushed fully out of German soil. By the end September, the Russians were no longer a menace to Germany. The German Eighth Army had won one of the most astonising battles in history -
Germans fire
The Germans fire shells filled with bleach gas at Allied lines. This is the first time that large amounts of gas are used in battle, and the result is the near-collapse of the French lines. However, the Germans are unable to take advantage of the breach. -
thw first tank
The British employ the first tanks ever used in battle, at Delville Wood. Although they are useful at breaking through biting wire and clearing a path for the infantrymen , tanks are still archaic and they fail to be the conclusive weapon, as their designers thought they would be. -
Start of the Battle of Loos
The Battle of Loos was the largest British abhortent mounted in 1915 on the Western Front during World War I.The British attack at Loos, led by Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the 1st Army of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), comprised half of a simultaneous Allied offensive begun in two separate regions -
battle of verdun
German attack on Verdun in the longest battle of the war, basically defended by the French at great cost to both sides.
one of over 1,200 such weapons set to bombard French forces along a 20-kilometer front stretching across the Meuse River—strikes a cathedral in Verdun, France, beginning the Battle of Verdun, which would stretch on for 10 months and become the longest battle of World War I. -
The battle of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland is treated to be the only major naval battle of World War One. Jutland endorsed the British Navy losing more men and ships but the answer of the Battle of Jutland was that the German Navy lost and was never in a position again to put to sea during the war. Admiral John Jellicoe's apporches were criticized by some, but after the battle the British Navy remained a powerful fighting force whereas the German High Seas fleet was not. -
British War Minister Lord Kitchener drowned
In the icy waters of the North Sea on June 5, 1916, the British cruiser Hampshire attacks a German mine and sinks off the Orkney Islands; among the passengers and crew drowned is Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the British secretary of state for war. -
The Battle of the Somme begins
The Battle of the Somme started in July 1st 1916. It lasted until November 1916. For many people, the Battle of the Somme was the battle that symbolised the horrors of battle in World War One; this one battle had a marked effect on overall casualty figures and seemed to epitomise the futility of trench battle. -
The Russian Revolution of 1917
In 1917, two revolutions completely changed the flic of Russia. First, the February Russian Revolution colapsed the Russian monarchy and established a Provisional Government. Then in October, a second Russian Revolution placed the Bolsheviks as the leaders of Russia, resulting in the creation of the world's first communist country. -
Zimmerman Telegram
British gives Wilson the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann asking that Mexico side with Germany in case of war between Germany and the United States. In return, Germany promises to return to Mexico the "lost colony" of Texas and much of the rest of the American Southwest. Mexico decline the offer, but the shock at this in the Western Hemisphere conflict pushes American public opinion to support entering the war -
The United States’ Entrance and Russia’s Exit
Despite the stalemate on both fronts in Europe, two important developments in the war occurred in 1917. In early April, the United States, riled by attacks upon its ships in the Atlantic, announced war on Germany. Then, in November, the Bolshevik Revolution aroused Russia to pull out of the war. -
Wilson for war
Woodrow Wilson, War Messages, 65th Cong., 1st Sess. Senate Doc. No. 5, Serial No. 7264, Washington, D.C., 1917; pp. 3-8, passim. On 3 February 1917, President Wilson addressed Congress to announce that diplomatic relations with Germany were severed. In a Special Session of Congress held on 2 April 1917, President Wilson delivered this 'War Message.' Four days later, Congress overwhelmingly passed the War Resolution which brought the United States into the Great War. -
U.S. enters War
Congress empower of war against Germany. The United States enters World War I on the side of France and Britain.
When World War I erupted in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson pledged neutrality for the United States, a position favored by the vast majority of Americans. Britain, however, was one of America's closest trading partners, and tension soon arose between the United States and Germany over the latter's attempted quarantine of the British Isles. -
Start of the Third Battle at Ypres
The Battle of Passchendaele, fought July 1917, is sometimes called the Third Battle of Ypres. For the soldiers who fought at Passchendaele, it was known as the 'Battle of Mud'. Few battles enclose World War One better than the Battle of Passchendaele -
Paul Bear was the first American military aviation score
First Lieutenant Paul Frank Baer was the first flying ace in the history of American military aviation, accept with nine confirmed and seven unconfirmed aerial victories in World War I. He also scored the first flying victory ever for an American military unit -
Started battle of Belleau Wood
The Battle of Belleau Wood begins as the U.S. Marine Corps attacks the Germans across an open field of wheat, suffering huge calamity. -
Belleau Wood Ends
The Battle of Belleau Wood ends with the final exclusion of the Germans from the wood, which marks the furthest German advance on Paris. The area has changed hands six times during the three-week battle, which has caused nearly 10,000 American blow. -
Became a legal federal holiday in the United States
A Brief History of Veterans Day. Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, was originally set as a U.S. legal holiday to honor the end of World War I, which officially took place on November 11, 1918.
The President Woodrow Wilson’s proclamation of Armistice Day, to be “filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory.” -
The Versailles Treaty
Treaty of Versailles was the peace agreement signed after World War One had done in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolution and other events in Russia. The treaty was signed at the ample Versailles Palace near Paris - hence its title - between Germany and the Allies. The three most important politicians there were David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson.
