Greatwar

The Great War Timeline

By dshirley96

  • Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sarajevo

  • The Falaba becomes the first passenger ship sunk by German U-boat

  • Second Battle of Ypres:first use of poison gas (Germans)

  • The Lusitania is sunk by German U-boat; 128 American civilans perish

  • Battle of Verdun begins (longest battle of the war)

  • The Sussex is sunk by German U-boat

    Results in the issue of the Sussex Pledge

  • Batlle of Somme begins

    First use of tanks in combat by British (huge failure)

  • U.S. president Woodrow Wilson wins reelection

  • Battle of Verdun ends

  • Germany revokes the Sussex Pledge

    Then resumes unrestricted submarine warfare

  • U.S. breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany

  • The Zimmermann telegram is published in U.S. newspapers

  • Tsar Nicolas II abdicates the Russain throne

    He abdicates the throne during the Russian Revoltuion

  • U.S. declares war on Germany

  • Congress passes the Espionage Act

  • Third Battle of Ypres begins

    By its end, over 250,000 are dead

  • Battle of Cambrai begins

    First British offensive designed around use of the tank

  • U.S. declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • President Wilson makes the "Fourteen Points" speech

    makes the speech to Congress

  • Russia and Germany sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    removed Russia from the war

  • Tsar Nicoholas II and his family are murdered

    They were murdered by the Bolsheviks

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates the Throne

  • Armistice Day Fighting Ceases at 11 am

    over 8.5 millon soldiers are dead

  • Peace negotiations begin in Paris

  • The Treaty of Versailles is signed

  • U.S. signs seperate peace treaty with Austria

  • U.S. signs seperate peace treaty with Germany

  • U.S. signs seperate peace treaty with Hungary