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Gavrillo Princip
Gavrilo Princip was a Serbian nationalist who became the catalyst for World War I when he assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The murder started a chain reaction that led to the beginning of the war only one month later. -
Austria-Hungary
This country declares war on Serbia. Germany, Russia, Great Britain, and France are all drawn into the war because they were involved in treaties that made them defend and help the two nations in their war. -
Radomir Putnik
Radomir Putnik, the Serbian Chief of General Staff, began the First World War in rather unfortunate circumstances, one that caused no small amount of amusement in diplomatic circles in August 1914. His health having suffered as a result of the Second Balkan War, Putnik had elected to take the waters at an Austrian spa and was interned there by the Austro-Hungarian authorities when war was declared by Austria-Hungary against Serbia on July 28. -
Germany
The first month of combat consisted of bold attacks and rapid troop movements on both fronts. In the west, Germany attacked first Belgium and then France. -
Battle of Gallipoli
The Battle of Gallipoli was an unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War I. It began with a failed naval attack by British and French ships on the Dardanelles Straits in February-March 1915 and continued with a major land invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25, involving British and French troops as well as divisions of the ANZAC. -
Battle of Verdun
Originally scheduled to start on February 12 the offensive was postponed to February 21 on account of poor weather, preceded by a 21 hour preliminary bombardment. In the interim between the planned and actual start date French Joffre received intelligence of the imminent attack, hastily deploying reinforcements to the French Second Army. Meanwhile the fortress commander, Lieutenant Colonel Emile Driant vainly attempted to improve Verdun salient on the east bank of the Meuse River. -
Arthur Zimmermann
A telegram is sent by Alfred Zimmermann to the German ambassador to Mexico. The telegram had the intent for a secret plan to bait Mexico into attacking the United States. -
Woodrow Wilson
Though he pledged to keep America out of World War I, Wilson was obliged to declare war on Germany after the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917. At the end of the war, Wilson became the first American president to leave the country during his administration when he sailed for Paris to negotiate the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. -
Argonne Forest
The Battle of the Argonne Forest was part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive planned by General Ferdinand Foch.
The offensive called for a three-pronged attack on the Germans at the Western Front. While the BEF and the French Army would attack the German lines at Flanders, the British forces would take on the German troops at Cambrai and the AEF, supported by the French Army, were to fight the German troops at the Argonne Forest. It started on September 16 and continued until November 11, 1918. -
Germany After the War
The war ended on November 1918, and Germany took the brunt of the critizism, even though they weren't the ones who started the war in the first place. One of the punishments Germany faced was the treaty they had to sign imposed steep war reparations payments on Germany, meant to force the country to bear the financial burden of the war -
Winston Churchill
As soon as the United States joined the war, Winston joined. He went through many battles and lived through battling all through the war, from start to finish.
