World War 1

By cmiller21

  • Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Russia begins mobilization

  • Germany declares war on Russia

  • Britian declares war on the Central Powers

  • Germany invades Belgium

  • America declares itself a neutral country

  • Lusitania sinks

  • The Sussex Sinks

  • Period: to

    The Battle of Somme

  • Germany abandons Sussex Pledge

  • First use the Convoy System in WW1

  • Lenin signs a treaty w/ Germany, Causing Russia to leave the war

  • Germany sinks the City of Memphis, Illinois, and the Vigilancia

  • Czar Nicholas II abdicates

    Being associated with an autocratic government made American hesitant to join a war on the side of Russia. After the Russian Reveloution, this problem no longer exsited.

  • America formally decares war on the side of the Allies

  • The Selective Service Act is passed

  • Germany advances past trenches, into Allied territory

  • USMC and Army stop German troops at Belleau Wood and Chateau-Thierry

  • Guns fall silent