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World War I

By Devinw1
  • Franz Ferdinand Assassination

    Franz Ferdinand Assassination

    The assassination of the Archduke instigated the beginning of World War I
  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

    Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

    Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the assaination on the Archduke Franz Ferdinand so they declared war on Serbia
  • First use of gas as a weapon by the Germans

    First use of gas as a weapon by the Germans

    The Germans used poison gas which was the first recorded attack on the French
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania

    The Lusitania was a passenger ship that did not want protection from heavily armed ships so it sunk from a torpedo from a German U-Boat and over 1,00 people died
  • Wilson reelected; pledged American neutrality

    Wilson reelected; pledged American neutrality

    Wilson was reelected for President and wanted to stay neutral in World War I
  • Zimmerman Note

    Zimmerman Note

    German Government employee. Aurthur Zimmerman sent a telegram to the Embassy of Mexico but the British intercept it and inform President Wilson that the Germans were going to attack
  • U.S. declares war

    U.S. declares war

    The U.S. declares war on the Germans because the Germans were planning an attack on Arizona, New Mexico and Texas also because they sank the passenger ship the Lusitania.
  • Bolsheviks led by Lenin overthrow Russian Government

    Bolsheviks led by Lenin overthrow Russian Government

    They kidnaped the Czar of Russia and his family and killed everyone where nobody could find them they even killed the kids and some of them were not even over ten
  • WAR ENDS

    WAR ENDS

    The Germans requested an Armistice with Wilson. He would sign only under his conditions which were to remove all troops from Belgium and to leave the French Border it is now known has Veterans Day
  • Treaty of Versallies

    Treaty of Versallies

    It was when they laid out what was going to happen after the war. Germany is not allowed to have a military and the Austria-Hungary empire break up.