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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo
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Russia moves its army to intervene with Austria-Hungary causing a chain reaction from the other European countries
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Germany invades the country of Belgium, marking the beginning of World War 1
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Germans fired chlorine gas at the Allied lines. This marks the first time large amounts of gas are used in warfare.
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The passenger ship “Lusitania” was sunk by a German submarine. It carried 1,198 passengers, 128 of which were American
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After the outrage of the Lusitania, the Kaiser of Germany limits submarine warfare
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British Army employs the first ever tanks at Delville Wood. They are still extremely primitive.
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Germany starts using submarines unrestricted again, helps draw the U.S. into the war
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Wilson is given the so called “Zimmerman Telegram.” The telegram is a message from Arthur Zimmerman proposing the aid of Mexico to the Germans, the Germans would try to use this tactic in WW2 as well
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Congress authorizes war declaration against Germany
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Grover delivers a baby with little to no medical supplies while being holed up due to air raids
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Grover is in a bad shelling incident. The housing he was in got a direct hit with a High Velocity Shell (H.V.) He patches up the wounds and they leave for new shelter
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Grover is dressing wounds when the building goes under a three hour bombing. He states that he watched many men die, and even watched and airship burn to the ground
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*The Battle of Cantigny is fought which leads into first involvement of the U.S. in WWI
*The Battle of Chateau-Thierry is fought and leads to The Battle of Belleau Wood, where we fought for three weeks
*The Battle of St. Mihiel - 300,000 American troops sling themselves into German lines -
Grover and his group found a soda factory that had recently been abandoned. The group raided it out. He was pretty ecstatic
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Grover died on October 16, 1918. He died early enough in the day that he didn’t get to jog down what he was doing that day. A loved one wrote after the October 15th entry, “Died 10-16-1918”
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Armistice is signed to mark the end of WW1
