World War I

By Dawsonn
  • Kasier declares "open season" on ships

    Kasier declares "open season" on ships

    Germany uses U boats to sink all ships.
  • Assination of Franz Ferdinand

    Assination of Franz Ferdinand

    The assassination was known as the spark to the outbreak of WWI. Ferdinand nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to Empire. WAs shot to death with his wife by a Serbian nationalists in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
  • Great War begins

    Great War begins

    All started by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria heir to the throne.
  • Lusitania Sank

    Lusitania Sank

    Germans sank Lusitania that was a civilian ship carrying americans on board.
  • Battle of the Somme

    Battle of the Somme

    First battle of WWI
  • Wilson re-elected

    Wilson re-elected

    President Woodrow Wilson gets re-elected
  • Zimmerman Note intercepted

    Zimmerman Note intercepted

    Germany tells Mexico to declare war on United States.
  • U.S. Declares War on Gemany

    U.S. Declares War on Gemany

    United States declares war on Germany
  • Selective Service Act

    Selective Service Act

    Authorized the US federal government to raise a national army for service in WWI through conscription.
  • Espionage Age passed

    Espionage Age passed

    WAs a federal law passed. Which made a federal offense to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the constitution, government etc.
  • Flu Epidemic

    Flu Epidemic

    Was an usually dead influenza pandemic.
  • Fourteen Points Speech

    Fourteen Points Speech

    Was a statement of principles of peace that was to be used for peace negotiations to end WWI.
  • Russia pulls out of war

    Russia pulls out of war

    Bolshevik Russia signs the Treaty of Brest Litovsk with Central Powers leaving the allied war effort and granting independence to it's polish and Baltic territories, the Ukraine, and Finland.
  • Sedition Act passed

    Sedition Act passed

    Designed to protect America's Participation in WWI.
  • Convoy System

    Convoy System

    Ships travel in packs for a greater chance of survival.
  • Germany signs armistice

    Germany signs armistice

    Was an armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and in air.