Vetsday Timeline

Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife assassinated

Jun 28, 1914

Assassinated in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip

First Battle of the Marne

Sep 1, 1914

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

Battle of Verdun

Feb 1, 1916

Germans and French lose about 350,000 men each

U.S. declares war on Germany

Apr 6, 1917

President Woodrow Wilson had asked a special joint session of Congress for this declaration.

U.S. declares war on Austria-Hungary

Dec 7, 1917

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

Armistice

Dec 15, 1917

Armistice between new Russian Bolshevik government and Germans