US History

By Crystal Rook
  • Franz Ferdinand is Assassinated

    Franz Ferdinand is Assassinated

    Franz Ferdinand is in line to become the king. Gavorilo Princip Kills Ferdinand.
  • Diplomatic Crisis

    Diplomatic Crisis

    Austria-Hungary declared war in Russia
  • Germany and Russis

    Germany and Russis

    Germany declares war on Russia
  • Tannenberg

    Tannenberg

    Germans stop Russian advance
  • Schlieffen Plan

    Schlieffen Plan

    Germany invaded Belgium
    Went through Belguim to Paris
  • Advance halted

    Advance halted

    Germans advance halted
  • Germany

    Germany

    Germans used chemical weapons for the first time
  • Labor Shortage

    Labor Shortage

    United States had a labor shortage
  • French held lonegest line

    French held lonegest line

    French held the longest line in battle
    Feb.-July
  • First Battle of Somme

    First Battle of Somme

    July-November
    Trench Warfare- Military operations in which the opposing forces attack and for systerms of fortified ditches.
  • U.S. Presidential Election

    U.S. Presidential Election

    Democrats renominated Wilson
    Repubicans nominated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes
  • U-boats Sink

    U-boats Sink

    U-boats would sink all ships in British waters
  • War Resolution

    War Resolution

    Guests crowded into the capitol building to hear President Wilson deliver his war resolution
  • Selective Service Act

    Selective Service Act

    Congress passed the Selective Service Act.
    Required men to register with the government in oreder to be randomly selected in military service.
  • U-boat sank

    U-boat sank

    1,198 people lost (128 were Americans)
    British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland
    Americans becamed outraged with Germany