World War 1

By IsabelClowney

  • Hollywood,Califorina

    It becomes the center of movie production in the u.s. Also a highly ethnically diverse, densely populated, economically diverse neighborhood, and retail business district. Its name becomes to be a metonym.

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferinard

    His wife was also assassinated. There were on the streets of Sarajevo when assassinated. They were next in line for Austro-Hungarian Throne.

  • Germany declares war on france and russia

    Two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany declares war on France, moving ahead with a long-held strategy. Alfred von Schlieffen, for a two-front war against France and Russia. Germany in the settlement that ended the Franco-Prussian War in 1871.

  • Albert Einstein

    He proposes his general theory of relativity. Theory of relativity, or simply relativity in physics, usually encompasses two theories. Measurements of various quantities and spacetime.

  • German sinks Lusitania

    It killed 1,198 people. The Lusitania sank within 20 minutes. The captain of the Lusitania ignored these recommendations, and at 2:12 p.m. on May 7, in the waters of the Celtic Sea, the 32,000-ton ship was hit by an exploding torpedo on its starboard side.

  • The Battle of Verdun

    The battle ended in December 18, 1916. The somme claim millions of lives. Both sides were left with more than 600,000 casualties.

  • Woodrow Wilson

    33rd quadrennial presidential election. The democratic candidate, was pitted against Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. ilson's re-election marked the first time that a Democratic Party candidate had won two consecutive Presidential elections since Andrew Jackson won re-election in the 1832 election.

  • U.S. declares war on Germany

    Germany renewed its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare that it had abandoned in 1915 after the sinking of the Lusitania. America thus joined the carnage that had been ravaging Europe since 1914. President Wilson appeared before a joint session of Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Germany

  • Russia

    Withdraws from war. The newly established Soviet government decided to withdraw Russia from the World War. Vladimir Lenin signed the Decree on Peace, which was approved by the Second Congress of the Soviet of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies.

  • The League of Nations

    Speech on War Aims and Peace Terms, President Wilson set down 14 points as a blueprint for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations after World War I. The team began its work in secret and in the end produced and collected nearly 2,000 separate reports and documents plus at least 1,200 maps. Wilson directly addressed what he perceived as the causes for the world war by calling for the abolition of secret treaties, a reduction in armaments, an adjustment in colonial claims in the in

  • The Sedition Act

    Cover a broad range of spoken or written offenses, including the use of disloyal, profane, scurrilous or abusive language.American government or its institutions with contempt. By Woodrow Wilson 's attorney general.

  • Communist regime in Russia

    Russian Revolution is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II, and the old regime was replaced. In the second revolution that October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government.

  • World War 1 Ends

    The First World War or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe.More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, paving the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved.

  • Worldwide Influenza Epidemic

    Approximately 20% to 40% of the worldwide population became ill. It killed over 30 million people. Pandemic flu saw high mortality rates among healthy adults.

  • The Nineteenth Amendent

    Susan Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote. A Republican from Illinois and chairman of the Suffrage Committee, proposed the House resolution to approve the right to vote for women. Another year passed before Congress took up the measure again.