World War I

By Ahmad_shkoukani25

  • 1910

    Start Of War

  • 1914

    Bosnia set in motion a flurry of military mobilizations and failed diplomatic exchanges that led to Germany’s attack on Belgium and France in August 1914. President Woodrow Wilson declared that the United States would remain neutral.

  • 1915

    A German U-boat sank the Lusitania, a British passenger ship sailing off the coast of Ireland; 123 Americans were among the victims. Wilson had also lifted the ban in 1915

  • 1916

    By 1916, Germany averted war with the United States.

  • 1917

    American banks were loaning Britain an average of $10 million a day to buy U.S. goods by 1917

  • 1918

    The majority victims of the Spanish Influenza pandemic that killed over half a million Americans in 1918

  • 1920

    End Of War