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Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria took place in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The assassination was perpetrated by a Serbian terrorist group, called The Black Hand and the man who shot Franz Ferdinand and his wife was a Bosnian revolutionary called Gavrilo Princip. This is what started World War 1. The picture displayed here is a newspaper article on the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
Battle of Tannenberg
The Russian army marched into Prussia. However, because of the differences in railway gauge between Russia and Prussia it was difficult for the Russians to get supplies through to their men. The Germans, on the other hand, used their railway system to surround the Russian Second army at Tannenberg before it's commander could realise what was happening. The ensuing battle was a heavy defeat for the Russians with thousands of men killed and 125,000 taken prisoner. The image shows the battlefield. -
Battle of Jutland
This was the only truly large-scale naval battle of the war. German forces, confined to port by a British naval blockade, came out in the hope of splitting the British fleet and destroying it ship by ship. However, the British admiral, Beatty, aware that the German tactics were the same as those used by Nelson at Trafalgar, sent a smaller force to lure the German's into the range of Admiral Jellicoe's main fleet. Picture= Battlefield for the Battle of Jutland. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Following the successful revolution by the Bolsheviks, the Russians signed an Armistice with Germany at Brest-Litovsk. The terms of the treaty were harsh: Russia had to surrender Poland, the Ukraine and other regions. They had to stop all Socialist propaganda directed at Germany and pay 300 million roubles for the repatriation of Russian prisoners. The picture displayed here is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. -
Armistice signed
In the French town of Redonthes, the Armistice was signed bringing the war to an end. The Amristice said that the fighting completley stop along the entire westtern front at 11 A.M. of that morning. This picture displayed here is an article on the Armistice that got signed.
