Vetsday Timeline

By jacob.schumacher
  • Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife assassinated

    Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife assassinated

    Assassinated in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip
  • First Battle of the Marne

    First Battle of the Marne

    German drive stopped 25 miles from Paris. By end of year, war on the Western Front is positional in the trenches.
  • Battle of Verdun

    Battle of Verdun

    Germans and French lose about 350,000 men each
  • U.S. declares war on Germany

    U.S. declares war on Germany

    President Woodrow Wilson had asked a special joint session of Congress for this declaration.
  • U.S. declares war on Austria-Hungary

    U.S. declares war on Austria-Hungary

    U.S. declares war and gets deeper into the war
  • Armistice

    Armistice

    Armistice between new Russian Bolshevik government and Germans