World War 1

  • Kaiser declares “open season” on ships

    Kaiser declares “open season” on ships

    Germany uses u boats to sink ships
  • Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

    Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

    The event that sparked the outbreak of WW1
  • Great War begins

    Great War begins

  • Lusitania sunk

    Lusitania sunk

    Germany sinks the civilian ship carrying americans.
  • Battle of the Somme

    Battle of the Somme

    The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. July 1,1916 until November 18, 1916.
  • Wilson re-elected

    Wilson re-elected

  • Zimmerman note intercepted

    Zimmerman note intercepted

    Germany sends Mexico a telegram saying to join the war to fight the United States and when the U.S. is defeated, they will have all their land back in Texas and New Mexico
  • US declares war on Germany

    US declares war on Germany

    Wilson requested a declaration of war against Germany.
  • Selective Service Act

    Selective Service Act

    Authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in WW1d
  • Convoy system

    Convoy system

    British Royal Navy introduces a newly created convoy system.
  • Espionage Age passed

    Espionage Age passed

    Law passed two months after the United States entered the war
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    Flu Epidemic

    between 20 to 40 million people died
  • Fourteen Points speech

    Fourteen Points speech

    A statement of principles for peace that was used to negotiate in order to end WW1
  • Russia pulls out of the war

    Russia pulls out of the war

    Bolshevik Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Central Powers, abandoning the Allied war effort and granting independence to its Polish and Baltic territories, the Ukraine, and Finland.
  • Sedition Act passed

    Sedition Act passed

    designed to protect america's participation in ww1
  • Germany signs armistice

    Germany signs armistice

    End fighting on land, sea, and air in WW1 between the allies and Germany