World War 1

By Alyssa Bumgarner

  • Kaiser declares ¨open season¨ on ships

  • Assasination of Franz Ferdinand

    -assassinated by Gavrilo Princip

  • Great War Begins

  • Lusitania sank

  • Battle of Somme

    July 1, 1916- November 18, 1916

  • Wilson re-elected

  • Zimmerman note Intercepted

  • US declared war on Germany

  • Selective Service Act

    -Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry in WW1 through the compulsory enlistment of people.

  • Espionage Age passed

    shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code (War) but is now found under Title 18, Crime.

  • Russia pulls out of the war

  • Fourteen Points Speech

    a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.

  • Flu Epidemic

    flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.

  • Sedition Act passed

    United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light

  • Convoy System

    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

  • Germany Signs Armistice