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Beginning of World War I
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are killed by a Bosnian Serb nationalist in Sarajevo. -
Beginning of World War I
World War I begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. -
Some countries decelerated some Wars
Germany starts a War on Russia, France and Belgium. Britain starts a War on Germany and Austria . Austria declares war on Rusia. Montenegro declares war on Austria and Germany . France declares war on Austria.Jpan declares War on Germany and Austria starts a war on Belgium -
First Battle of the Marne
First Battle of the Marne begins, The Germans had 30 miles of Paris , but over the next two days, the French are reinforced by 6,000 infantrymen who are transported to the front by hundreds of taxis. -
Ottoman Empire
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire. -
The Second Battle of Ypres
The Second Battle of Ypres begins. The German army initiates the modern era of chemical warfare by launching a chlorine attack on Allied trenches. -
Lusitania
The British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland .1,200 people are killed, including 128 U.S. citizens. The ship had been carrying over 170 tons of rifle ammunition and artillery shells, and Germany felt fully justified in treating the Lusitania as a legitimate target in a declared war zone. -
The Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun begins. Over the next 10 months, the French and German armies at Verdun, France, suffer over 700,000 casualties, including some 300,000 killed. By the battle’s conclusion, entire French villages had been wiped from the map; they were subsequently memorialized as having “died for France.” -
The battleships
The British and German fleets meet 60 miles off the coast of Jutland, Denmark, in the war’s only major encounter between the world’s two largest sea powers. Although a naval arms race between Britain and Germany had been one of the causes of World War I, the clash of the battleships is largely indecisive. -
The First Battle of the Somme
The British offensive is intended to draw German attention from Verdun, and in that regard only could it be considered a success 20,000 killed in action on July 1 marks the single bloodiest day in the history of the British army. -
Nicholas II
Nicholas II abdicates the throne after a week of riots in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. The Russian Revolution saw the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty and, ultimately, the rise to power of Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. -
Woodrow Wilson
The United States declares war on Germany , U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson had cited Germany’s practice of unrestricted submarine warfare and the “Zimmermann Telegram” as key reasons behind the abandonment of his long-standing policy of neutrality. -
A British on at Cambrai , France
A British offensive at Cambrai, France, marks the first large-scale use of tanks in combat. Attacking with complete surprise, the British tanks ripped through German defenses in depth and took some 7,500 prisoners at low cost in casualties. Bad weather intervened, however, and adequate infantry reinforcements were not available to capitalize on the breakthrough. -
the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
the Soviet government concludes a separate peace with the Central Powers when it accepts the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia surrenders its claim to Ukraine, to its Polish and Baltic territories, and to Finland. -
Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff
Nevertheless, a group of hard-core militarists, led by Erich Ludendorff, would perpetuate the “stabbed in the back” myth, claiming that Germany had been betrayed by its politicians and that the German military had been unbeaten in the field. This sentiment would do much to propel the ascent of Adolf Hitler to power in 1933.
