The Great War

By SeanKearney
  • Assassination in Sarajevo

    Assassination in Sarajevo

    Archduke Francis Ferdiand and his wife Sofia were shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old Bosnian Serb.

  • First decleration of War

    Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Germany Decalres War on Russia

  • Germany declares war on France

  • Great Britain declares war on Germany

  • Ottoman Empire joins Germany and Austria-Hungary

  • Battle of Tannenberg

    Germany defeted the Russian army

  • First Battle of the Marne

  • Battle of Masurian Lakes

    Germany defeats the Russian Army

  • Battle of Gallipoli

  • Italy switches sides during the war

    italy signs the secret Treaty of London
  • Lusitania sunk by German U-boats

    Lusitania sunk by German U-boats

  • Bugaria joins Germany and Austria-Hungary

  • Battle of Jutland

    Only direct battle between Germany and Great Britain at sea

  • Zimmerman Telegram

  • 10,000 women marched through city of Petrograd

  • Nicholas II steps down

  • US joins the Allies in the war

  • Bolshevik forces seize the Winter Palace

  • Lenin signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany

    Lenin gives up Poland, Ukraine, Finland, and the Batlic provinces

  • Czar family killed

  • Second Battle of Marne

  • General Lundendorff informed German leaders that the war was lost

  • William II leaves Germany

  • Armistice signed

    Armistice signed

  • Treaty of Versailles signed

    Treaty of Versailles signed

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