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World War 1
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assassination of archduke franz ferdinand
The death of archduke sparked World War 1 -
WW1 Begins
global war centred in Europe .9 million combatants were killed; a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. It was the fifth-deadliest conflict in world history, paving the way for major political changes. -
panama canal opens
The Panama Canal was built to shorten the distance that ships had to travel to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. -
Battle of the Masurian
German offensive in the Eastern Front during the early stages of World War I. It pushed the Russian First Army back across its entire front, eventually ejecting it from Germany in disarray. Further progress was hampered by the arrival of the Russian Tenth Army on the Germans' left flank. -
First Battle Of The Marne
It proved a quick German victory was impossible, which screwed up Germany's war plan ( scheflin plan ) also it stopped germany from moving throughout europe . -
The Gallipoli Campaigan begins
The landings on the Gallipoli peninsula represented the second stage of a British attempt to shorten the war by both knocking out Turkey and assisting munition-starved Russia by sending supplies through the Dardanelles and Black Sea route. -
Armenian massacre
the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and forced labor, and the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches to the Syrian Desert.The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 million -
sinking of the lusitania
The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes.killing 1,198 and leaving 761 survivors. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I . -
Germany returns to unrestricted submarine warfare
sinking of the British ship Lusitania by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915. Although the Lusitania was a British ship and it was carrying a supply of munitions Germany used these two facts to justify the attack—it was principally a passenger ship, and the 1,201 people who drowned in its sinking included 128 Americans. -
Second Battle of Champagne
French offensive against the invading German army -
Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single battle of World War One. The casualties from Verdun and the impact the battle had on the French Army was a primary reason for the British starting the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 in an effort to take German pressure off of the French at Verdun. -
Battle of the somme
Fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles. -
Zimmerman telegram is intercepted
proposal from the German Empire for Mexico to join the Central Powers, in the event of the United States entering World War I on the side of the Entente Powers. The proposal was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence. -
czar nicholas steps down from power
Nicholas ordered his troops to open fire on the crowds of protestors, but the 170,000 men of the Petrograd garrison mutinied, instead joining the protestors. Other soldiers and sailors also mutinied as news of these events reached them. Nicholas’ authority as czar and supreme military commander had evaporated, and he abdicated on March 2, 1917. -
U.S declaration of war
U.S joins war due to zimmerman telegraph an sinking of louistania -
Breakthrough for german troops
German troops break through the northernmost end of the Russian front during the Riga offensive -
communists seize power in russia
russian armny was short on food, guns, ammunition, clothes, boots, blankets. morever, the allied supply shipments to russia were sharply limited by german control of the baltic sea. -
Russia Pulls Out Of WW1
Bolshevik revolution in 1917. This was because after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the appointment of a weak provisional, discontent towards the government and war grew among the people. This led to a rise in popularity of the Bolshevik party, and in November, the party led by Vladimir Lenin triumphed and Russia pulled out of the war. -
Treaty of brest-litovsk signed
The treaty was signed at Brest-Litovsk after two months of negotiations. The treaty was forced on the Soviet government by the threat of further advances by German and Austrian forces. -
Second Battle Of The Marne
Germany's final major attempt at breakthrough on the Western Front prior to the arrival of ever-increasing U.S. troops on the battlefield. -
Kaiser Wilhelm the second steps down
He fled the country with the rest of his family and lived in Holland for the rest of his life. Wilhelm, who wrote two volumes of autobiography, Memoirs 1878-1918 (1922) and My Early Life (1926) died in 1941. -
Armistice signed
the agreement that ended the fighting in western Europe that comprised the First World War. It went into effect at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918, and marked a victory for the Allies and a complete defeat for Germany, although not technically a surrender. The Germans were responding to the policies proposed by American president Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Points of January 1918. -
End Of WW1
The first world war ended with the treaty of versailles
