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World War I

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  • Franz Ferdinand Assassination

    Franz Ferdinand Assassination
    The Assassination sparked the beginning of World War I

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

    Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
    Since the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was killed in Sarajevo along with his wife Duchess Sophie by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip. Austria declares war on Serbia

  • First use of a gas as a weapon by the Germans

    First use of a gas as a weapon by the Germans
    Even though the Germans were the first to use toxic gas on the battlefield, it became the primary chemical weapon of the Allies and it was responsible for 85% of chemical weapon deaths in World War I

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania
    While Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom the Lusitania was passing by and Germany thought it was a supply ship. the boat was Identified and torpedoed by the German u-boat U-20. The boat sank in 18 minutes of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans.

  • Wilson reelected, pledged American neutrality

    Wilson reelected, pledged American neutrality
    President Wilson immediately declared American neutrality after he was reelected in 1916. He said: "It is a war with which we have nothing to do, whose causes cannot touch us".

  • Zimmerman note

    Zimmerman note
    The Zimmermann Telegram or Zimmermann Note was a secret note issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 to Mexico that asked for an alliance if we joined war world I.

  • U.S. declares war

    U.S. declares war
    U.S. Entry into World War I, 1917. On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany.

  • Bolsheviks led by Lenin overthrown Russian government

    Bolsheviks led by Lenin overthrown Russian government
    On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky

  • War ends

    War ends
    At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, supply of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    Treaty of Versalies was the most important treaty in the ending of World War I. It was signed in Paris, France.