World War 1

By alissamathieu9

  • Hollywood becoming the center of movie production

    1. Started a series of Jack London movies
    2. Paramount was the first successful nationwide distribution
    3. Films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film providers

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz

    1. June the 28th was the wedding anniversary of Archduke and his wife Sophia
    2. Nedjelko Carbrinovic threw a bomb at their car
    3. The assassination set a rapid chain of events

  • Germany decrares war on Russia and France

    1. Hours later, France makes it's oen declaration of war against Germany
    2. Hours before Germany's declaration of war on France on Auguest 3rd the British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey, went before Parlament and convinced a divided Bristish government

  • Alexander Graham Bell makes the first transcontinental telephone call

    1. The first words spoken over the telephone were by Alex on March 10, 1876. They were "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you".
    2. Bell and his investors had a valuable patent that would change the world.
    3. They formed the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.

  • German U-boats sink the Lusiania, and 1,198 people die

    1. Sank off the southern coast of Ireland
    2. 128 Americans died
    3. American public opinion turned against Germany and the Central Powers

  • Albert Einstein proposes his general theory of relativity

    1. Albert Einstein completes his theory of gravitation, known as the general theory of relativity, on Nov. 25, 1915.
    2. The theory is submitted to Annalen der Physik on Mar. 20, 1916
    3. Einstein presented the general theory of relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1915.

  • Woodrow Wilson is reelected president

    1. The United States presidential election of 1916 was the 33rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916.
    2. Incumbent President Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, was pitted against Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate.

  • The United States declares war on Germany

    1. President Wilson appeared before a joint session of Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Germany in order to make the world safe for democracy
    2. In January 1917, Germany renewed it's policy of unresticted submarine warfare that it had abandoned in 1915 after the sinking of the Lusitania
    3. America thus joined the carnage that had been ravaging

  • The selective service act sets up the draft

    1. The Selective Service Act or Selective Draft Act, enacted May 18, 1917, authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people.
    2. It was envisioned in December 1916 and brought to President Woodrow Wilson's attention shortly after the break in relations with Germany in February 1917

  • Russia withdraws from the war

    1. The Russian military experienced negative outcomes from virtually the beginning of the war, according to the BBC.
    2. Even though they were able to mobilize faster than their enemies had anticipated, they were still unprepared, being outgunned and outclassed by their German adversaries \

  • Congress passes the Sedition Act

    1. On May 16, 1918, the United States Congress passes the Sedition Act, a piece of legislation designed to protect America’s participation in World War I. 2.long with the Espionage Act of the previous year, the Sedition Act was orchestrated largely by A. Mitchell Palmer, the United States attorney general under President Woodrow Wilson.

  • The first World War ends

    1. the First World War or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million
    2. 7 million civilians died as a result of the war, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate.