World War 1

By nataliaavazquezz

  • Archduke assasinated, war declared

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August

  • Australia

    declares war on Serbia

  • Australia-Hungary

    repeatedly invades Serbia but is repeatedly repulsed

  • Outbreak war

    Germany declares war on Russia

  • germany

    declares war on france

  • Woodrow Wilson

    US President Woodrow Wilson declares policy of US neutrality

  • Battle of the Frontiers

    begins
  • Period: to

    Russia

    invades East Prussia
  • Period: to

    Battle of Marne

    First Battle of Marne, halts German advance, resulting in stalemate and trench warfare

  • Austro-German

    Austro-German attack on western Poland
  • Period: to

    Battle of Ypres

    First Battle of Ypres

  • German

    First German air raid on Britain

  • Unofficial Christmas

    Unofficial Christmas truce declared by soldiers along the Western Front