World War I

By codybdodd

  • Hollywood, California

    Becomes center of movie production. Has several historic studios. Hollywood was a small community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903.

  • Assassination of Ferdinand

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Gavrilo Princip fired into the car, shooting Franz Ferdinand and Sophie at point-blank range. The assassination of Franz-Ferdinand and Sophie set off a rapid chain of events.

  • Germany Declares War

    War declared on Russia and France. Great Britain delcares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. m\Moving ahead with a long-held strategy, conceived by the former chief of staff of the German army.

  • Albert Einstein

    Proposes his general theory of relativity. Determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers. He showed that the speed of light within a vacuum is the same no matter the speed at which an observer travels.

  • Alexander Graham Bell

    He makes the first phone call. The call was trancontinental and that was the signifance. A day timed to coincide with the Panama-Pacific Exposition celebrations.

  • German U-boats

    U-boats sink the Lusitania. 1,198 people die. The captain of the Lusitania ignored these recommendations, and in the waters of the Celtic Sea, the ship was hit by an exploding torpedo on its starboard side.

  • The Battle of Verdun and the Somme

    Claimed millions of lives. The longest single battle of World War One. The casualties from Verdun and the impact the battle had on the French Army was a primary reason for the British starting the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 in an effort to take German pressure off of the French at Verdun.

  • Woodrow Wilson Reelction

    28th President. He was a democratic candidate. Wilson defeated Hughes by nearly 600,000 votes in the popular vote.

  • Russia Withdraws from the War

    This was soon after the October Revolution of 1917. The country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard. The new socialist government led by Alexander Kerensky hoped to negotiate a peaceful withdrawal, but neither Germany nor Russia's allies accepted this.

  • The U.S Declares War on Germany

    President Wilson appeared before a joint session of Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Germany in order to "make the world safe for democracy." Congress granted the request. America thus joined the carnage that had been ravaging Europe since 1914.

  • The Selective Service Act

    Sets up the military draft. Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people. The Act was canceled with the end of the war on November, 1918.

  • President WIlson Proposes the League of Nations

    An intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Its primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration.

  • Congress Passed Sedition Act

    It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, or its flag. Or its armed forces that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt. Those convicted under the act generally received sentences of imprisonment for five to 20 years.

  • The First World War ends

    Came to an end following the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany that called for a ceasefire effective at 11 a.m. It was on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives.

  • Congress approves the Nineteenth Ammendment

    Guaranteeing women the right to vote, is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. The women’s suffrage movement was founded in the mid-19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements. In July 1848, 240 woman suffragists, met in Seneca Falls, New York, to assert the right of women to vote.