World War I

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    WWI

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. him and his wife were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb while visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. Austria immdiatly blamed Serbia.

  • Time expires for Serbia to agree to demands from Austro-Hungarian government.

  • Austria declared war on Serbia

  • Russia mobilises forces

  • Battle of Tannenberg

  • Germany and the Ottoman Empire sign a secrect aliance treaty.

  • Italy declares its neutrality

  • Germany declared war on Russia.

  • Germany declare war on France and Belgium

  • British declaration of war

  • Mentenegro declare war on Germany.

  • France declares war on Austria-Hungary.

  • The United Kingdom declares war on Austria_Hungary.

  • Japan declare war on Germany.

  • Germany invaded Belguim

    Germany invaded Belguim

  • Austria-Hungary declare war on Belgium

  • Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • The royal navy wins First battle of Heligoland Bight, North Sea.

  • Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire

  • Russia declared war on Turkey

    Turkey had helped Germany with attacks on Russia: therefore Russia declared war on Turkey.

  • Montenegro declares war on the Ottoman Empire

  • United Kingdom and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire.

  • An unofficial Christmas truce is declared between large numbers of German and French forces

  • First Zeppelin raid on Great Britain.

    First Zeppelin raid on Great Britain.

    The first attack was planned out on the 13th of January. Four Zeppelins were launched, but bad weather meant that the airships had to abandon the raid. The first successful raid was on the 19th-20th January, two Zeppelins made an attack on Great Yarmouth, Sheringham, King’s Lynn and surrounding villages. Twenty-four 50kg high explosive bombs and ineffe3ctive 3kg incendiaries were dropped.
    From the start of 1915, several Zeppelin raids were conducted. The raids were mostly against Britain, leadin

  • Battle of Bolimov.

    First German use of chemical weapons.
  • Germany begins submarine warfare against merchant vessels.

    Germany begins submarine warfare against merchant vessels.

    Submarine warfare was partly between German U-boats and Atlantic supply convoys headed to Great Britain. German submarine attacks on allied merchant ships gave a direct cause for America to enter the war in April 1917.

    German submarines were used to lay mines and attack iron ore shipping in the Baltic Sea.

  • London pact between the Entente and Italy.

  • Allied forces land in Gallipoli

    Allied forces land in Gallipoli

    Gallipoli was one of the Allies great disasters in WWI. Gallipoli was the plan thought up by Winston Churchill to end the war early by creating a new war front that the Central Powers could not cope with.

  • Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • Bulgaria declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • United Kingdom declare war on Bulgaria

  • France declares war on Bulgaria

  • Italy and Russia declare war on Bulgaria

  • Gallipoli Campaign ends.

    the gallipoli campaigns ends in an Allied defeat and an Ottoman victory.

  • Romania enter the war

  • Italy declares war on Germany.

    Italy declares war on Germany.

    Italy had declared war on Germany, two years after declaring neutrality.

  • Grigori Rasputin, Russia's eminence grise, is assassinated.

  • United States of America declares war on Germany

  • First American troops land in France.

    First American troops land in France.

    The first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops landed in France at the port of Saint Nazaire.
    The landing place was kept a secret because of the risks of having a German submarine attack.
    The troops from America were untrained, ill-equipped and far from ready for the difficulties of fighting along the Western Front.

  • The battle of Passchendaele begins

  • United States of America declares war on Austrai-Hungary

  • Russia signs armistice with Germany

  • Germany suspends submarine warfare

  • Austrai-Hungary signs armistice with Italy

  • World War 1 Ends.

    World War 1 Ends.

    Armatice signed by Germany. The war is over.

  • First meeting of the League of Nations held in London.

    OFFICIAL END OF WAR.