World War I

  • Revolution overthrows Austria-Hungarian Emperor.

    Revolution overthrows Austria-Hungarian Emperor.
    A bunch of revolutions took place in the Austria Empire, from March of 1848 to November 1849. One of these events just happen to be the revolution to overthrow the Austria-Hungarian Emperor.
  • france loses alsace and lorraine to germany

    france loses alsace and lorraine to germany
    France lost the land between them and Germany controlled this for 43 years. France got it back in 1914
  • germany officially unified

    germany officially unified
    This is when germany obtained all the land they had during WWI
  • Triple Alliance was formed.

    Triple Alliance was formed.
    The triple Alliance was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.
  • bolsheviks emerge as a political group

    bolsheviks emerge as a political group
    They spilt into there own party and emergedas a poltcal party
  • Russo-Japanese war

    Russo-Japanese war
    The Russo-Japanese war was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over imperial ambitions.
  • Triple Entente was formed.

    Triple Entente was formed.
    This alliance formed from the Franco-Russian Alliance (1894)
  • End of Russo-Japanese war.

    End of Russo-Japanese war.
    It was in 1905 when Rusia and Japan decied to stop the Russo-japanese war.
  • Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia

    Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia
    This split Austria-Hungary and Bosnia before the war
  • Germany starts unrestricted submarine warfare.

    Germany starts unrestricted submarine warfare.
    Unrestricted submarine warfare was a type of naval warfare in which submarines start to sink other ships with no warning.
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated
    This event is what sparked the war
  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

    Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
    This is when the World War offically started
  • Schlieffen plan is put into action.

    Schlieffen plan is put into action.
    The Schlieffen plan was a plan to take over France by invading Luxemburg, Belgium.
  • Ottoman-Germany alliance formed

    Ottoman-Germany alliance formed
    This alliance was made to modernize and strengthen the Ottoman army.
  • Japan declares war on germany

    Japan declares war on germany
    This is when japan declared on Germany now Japan has entered WWI on the allied powers.
  • Battle of Marne

    Battle of Marne
    First battle of the world war and it was when Gernany tried to invade Belgium
  • lusitania sinks

    lusitania sinks
    This was the one of the reasons the US joined the war
  • Battle of Verdun

    Battle of Verdun
    Battle last for 10 months and a 540,000 french and 430,000 german casualties.
  • Battle of Somme

    Battle of Somme
    This is important to World History because it showed how the war was pointless because nobody was winning just many people dying.
  • Vladimir Lenin seizes power in Russia

    Vladimir Lenin seizes power in Russia
    He becomes the leader of he Bolsheviks political group a seizes power through there.
  • Zimmerman telegram found

    Zimmerman telegram found
    This is the primary reason the US joined the war because germany was trying to get Mexico to attack us.
  • Tsar Nicholas II is abdicated.

    Tsar Nicholas II is abdicated.
    Tsar Nicholas II was alsoknown as Saint Ncholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox church. Tsar ruled from the first of November of 1894 until his forces abdicated him on the 15th of March, 1917.
  • Us declares war on germany

    Us declares war on germany
    This is where the US joined in the war with fresh troops
  • Fourteen Points Speech

    Fourteen Points Speech
    This is important to world history because it was a plan to creat world peace and the league of nations
  • Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

    Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
    The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed by the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman empire).
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II abicates

    Kaiser Wilhelm II abicates
    He did not want to lead his army into battle so the abicated him and he was exile in holland.
  • Treaty of Versailles.

    Treaty of Versailles.
    The Treaty of Versailles was one of the mant treaties that was signed to end the war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
  • Stalin takes over Russia.

    Stalin takes over Russia.
    Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist party of the soviets union's central commitee in 1922 to 1953.
  • Germany stops reparation payments to france

    Germany stops reparation payments to france
    This is when Germany finally stop paying the war debt it took them 92 years to pay all their debt.