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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Him and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo. -
US
U.S President Woodrow Wilson announces that the United States will remain neutral and won’t enter war. -
Trenches
The first trenches of the Western front are dug. -
Trude
An unofficial Christmas truce was declared by soldiers in the trenches along the western front. Between British and German soldiers in the trenches of northern France. Soccer games, exchanging gifts and sang carols. -
Bombing
Germany begins an aerial bombing campaign against Britain using Zeppelins. -
Poison Gas
Poison gas is used for the first time in the war as Germans on the Eastern Front attack Russian positions west of Warsaw. -
U-Boat campaign
The first German U-Boat campaign of the war begins with unrestricted attacks against merchant and passenger ships in the waters around the British Isles. -
Battle of Verdun
It was the sort of drenching shellstorm that would distinguish the battle. Verdun did act as a “suction cup”: three fourths of the French Western Front divisions would eventually serve there. -
Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire for Mexico to join an alliance with Germany in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. -
US declares war
President Woodrow Wilson declares war on Germany. Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war. -
Fourteen Points
Wilson's Fourteen Points became the basis for a peace program and it was on the back of the Fourteen Points that Germany and her allies agreed to an armistice in November 1918. -
Battle of Justland
250 ships and 100,000 men, this battle off Denmark’s North Sea coast was the only major naval surface engagement of World War I. -
Battle of Somme
One of the largest and bloodiest battles of WWI. -
Armistice Agreement
Signed between France, Britain and Germany. An agreement to end fighting. Began on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on June 28, 1919 ending World War I. -
Elected 29th President
Harding was elected 29th president on . His term followed World War I and a campaign promising a “return to normalcy”. His presidency lasted 2-3 years, 1921 through 1923. -
Emergency Quota Act
Harding signed the Emergency quota Act, limiting the number of immigrants from any given country to 3 percent of that nationality already in the United States by 1910. -
Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act
Harding signed the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act, granting matching federal funds to states for maternal and child care. The legislation also recognizes the emergent political power of women, a constituency which gained the right to vote during the previous year.
