World War 1

  • Archduck and wife are killed

    killed one day after arriving in Sarajero.
  • Partial mobalization of the Russian army againest Austria-Hungray

    Czar Nicholas 2nd declared it. This was considered an act of war.
  • Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia

    declared war after austria led troops into Serbia
  • Czar Nicholas 2nd ordered a full mobilization of the Russian army

    Germany took this as a act of war
  • Germany declares war on Russia

    did this because of the mobailization
  • Germany declared war againest France

    was planning on invading it so declared war so they could invade and pass through Belgium
  • Grest Britain declared war on Germany

    did this because they broke Belgian neutrality.
  • Battle of Tannenberg

    Russia lost to Germany
  • Battle Of Marne

    ended the 10th. this started the buliding of trenches
  • Battle of Masurian Lakes

    Russia again loses to Germany and is not considered a threat to Germany.
  • Lusitanaia was sunk by German forces

    Sunk because of a submarine and lusitanaia was an american ship with people going to Great Britain. First time that germany and Great Britain had a naval 'battle'
  • Battle of Jutland

    last time that germany had a naval battle with Great Britain, neither side won.
  • Women strike in Petrograd, Russia

  • Womens strike shuts all factories down

  • New governement starts in Russia

  • Czar Nicholas steps down from power

  • Lenin signs the Treaty of BrestLitovsk

    gave up oland, Ukraine, Finland and Baltic provinces
  • Erich told Germany that the war was lost

    he told the government the war was lost and they needed peace
  • Sailers in Kiel were muntinied

  • Germany signed an armistice

  • acceptince of the League of Nations

    the conference accepted this