World War 1

  • Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

    Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

    Franz Ferdinand was killed by a serbian nationalist
  • Great War Begins

    Great War Begins

    Beginning of World War 1
  • Kaiser declares “open season” on ships

    Kaiser declares “open season” on ships

    Sink any and every ship
  • Lusitania sank

    Lusitania sank

    Civilian ship is sank by German submarine
  • Battle of the Somme

    Battle of the Somme

    Largest battle on the western front
  • Wilson re-elected

    Wilson re-elected

    Wilson is re-elected as the US president
  • Zimmerman note intercepted

    Zimmerman note intercepted

    In the telegram, intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence in January 1917, Zimmermann instructed the ambassador, Count Johann von Bernstorff, to offer significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter any future U.S-German conflict as a German ally.
  • US declares war on Germany

    US declares war on Germany

    US finally enters the war
  • Selective Service Act

    Selective Service Act

    Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry to World War 1
  • Convoy system

    Convoy system

    The convoy system, which can be defined as a group of merchant vessels sailing together, with or without naval escort, for mutual security and protection, has a much longer history than sometimes suggested
  • Espionage Age passed

    Espionage Age passed

    Federal law passed shortly after US entry into World War 1
  • Russia pulls out of the war

    Russia pulls out of the war

    Russia leave World War 1 because of an inner uprising.
  • Flu Epidemic

    Flu Epidemic

    Large case of the flu
  • Fourteen Points Speech

    Fourteen Points Speech

    Famous speech by Woodrow Wilson
  • Sedition Act passed

    Sedition Act passed

    Was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses
  • Germany Signs Armistice

    Germany Signs Armistice

    End of the war