Timeline of World War 1

By mikeyboy333

  • Francis Ferdinand killed in Sarajevo

    This event was the spark of the whole war.
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    Timespan for WWI

  • Kaiseer William II says that German will support Austria against Serbia

  • Austria declares war on Serbia

  • Germany waged war on Russia

  • Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium. They used the Schlieffen plan.

    The Schlieffen plan was the strategy that was supposed to lead them to victory. It was a strategy to avoid a war on the west and east side by first defeating the French, then rushing the troops by train to Russia before they were ready to mobilize their troops.

  • Britain declared war on Germany

  • British forces started to retreat from Mons. France was invaded by Germany.

    Mons was the first major battle. It was comprised mainly of trench warfare.

  • Battle of Marne started

  • First battle of Ypres

  • Turkey joined Germany in the war. In the western side, there is mainly tranch warfare.

  • First Zeppelin raid in England

  • Allied soldiers landed in Gallipoli

  • Italy declared war on Germany and Austria

  • Warsaw was captured from Russia by Germany

  • The battle of Loos started

  • The evacuation of the Allies from Gallipoli started

  • The battle of Verdun started

  • The British surrender to the Turkish at Kut in Mesopotamia

  • Battle of Jutland

  • The Brusilov offensive is started

  • The Battle of the Somme starts

  • Brusilov offensive ends

  • First use en masse of tanks at the battle of Somme

  • Lloyd George becomes prime minister of Britain

  • Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started

  • USA declared war on Germany

  • A failed offensive launched in the west by the french

  • Start of the Third Battle at Ypres

  • Army of Italy heavily defeated at battle of Caporetto

  • Major offensive launched on the western front from Britain

  • British tank victory at Cambrai

  • Armistice between Russia and Germany signed

  • Britain captured Jerusalem from Turkey

  • The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany.

  • Germany broke through on the Somme

  • Germany started an attack on Flanders

  • Second battle of Marne started. The German army started to collapse

  • Successful advance of the Allies

  • Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo

  • Germany requested an armistice with the Allies

  • German navy mutinied

  • Turkey made peace

  • Austria made peace

  • Kaiser William II abdicated

  • Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One.