World War 1

  • triple alliance forms

  • Period: to

    World War 1 "The Great War"

    First war to involve countries from every continent
  • Triple Entente forms

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Shot by a Serbian Nationalist that was working with the organization known as the BLACK HAND.
    Wife was also killed.
    Was in the Bosnian capital of Serajove.
  • Ultimatam given to Serbia

  • Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Russian troops mobilize

  • germans attack

  • Germany declares war against France

  • Great Britian declares war on Germany for violating Belguim nuetrality

  • Russians defeated at Tannenburg

  • Battle of the Marne

  • italians join allied forces