World War 1 Timeline

  • Women

    Women
    Firstly the women of World War 1, saved mankind by stepping in to help with the men's jobs which were deserted, when they were called off to fight in the war. For the women that stayed out of the war took over factory jobs and all man jobs.
  • Sinking of Lusitania

    Sinking of Lusitania
    The sinking of the Cunardocean linerRMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boatU-20 and sank in 18 minutes.
  • Trench Warfare

    Trench Warfare
    Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. The most famous use of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I.
  • Zimmerman Note

    Zimmerman Note
    The Zimmerman Note is a internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office early in 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
  • Espionage and Sedition Act

    Espionage and Sedition Act
    Congress amended the law with the Sedition Act of 1918, which made it illegal to write or speak anything critical of American involvement in the war.parts of the Acts violated the 1st Amendment because it made it illegal to give ' bad press ' to a public official Schenck v. United States. Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), is a United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I.l
  • Spanish Flu

    Spanish Flu
    this deadly flu spread quickly around the world, infecting hundreds of millions of people and killing 50 million to 100 million.
  • Treaty of Versallies

    Treaty of Versallies
    The negotiations revealed a split between the French, who wanted to dismember Germany to make it impossible for it to renew war with France, and the British and Americans, who did not want to create pretexts for a new war.
  • Fourteen points

    Fourteen points
    The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.