World War I

  • James William Bean life story

    James William Bean life story
    William James bean was born on may 24, 1888 in Syracuse, new York. He had five brothers and one sister and he was definitely the youngest out of all of them. His location was 1335 gape street, Syracuse. Before the war he was a barber and he learned it when he was eighteen. After a while he was working there he had bought the shop.
  • William James Bean

    William James Bean had moved to Syracuse, New York and had gotten there by a train. He had his wife with him. He had set up a house at 1107 canon street. He had some loans from his parents and had them pay and run the house. He had got invited to the united states army and went to fort Hamilton, in Brooklyn, new York.
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    Franz Ferdinand, visited the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo with his wife and rode all through the city Gavrillo. That couple got assassinated which was a member of Serbian. This was the first spark to the world.
  • Austria- Hungary declared war

    Austria- Hungary declared war
    Serbia might make a big war with Russia. He they might do that if they keep on attacking, so they can “prevent Slavic nationalism from undermining its empire”. Germany is planning on supporting Austria-Hungary if war is gonna start. Then on July 28 a war was declared by Austria-Hungary on Serbia. Knowing that they are getting in a war the Russian started to get their army for back up, also getting the troops stationed on the border of Germany.
  • Germans sink Lusitania

    Germans sink Lusitania
    The British passenger ship Lusitania entered the war zone of Germany and the effect to that they lost 1,200 passengers-including, 128 Americans with the German high tech submarine. When that happened the Germans are now known as a terrorist for killing the civilians and most was women and children. So the Americans sent several official protest to Germany to tell them to stop endangering the people that was not included in the war zone.
  • Battle of Verdun

    Battle of Verdun
    Battle of Verdun would be the longest conflict of World War I. It was stretched for 10 months. Their key to winning the war is to defeat the french in a major battle on the western front. There was really bad losses on both side of the Battle of Verdun.
  • Zimmerman telegram

    Zimmerman telegram
    Zimmerman received a telegram to German ambassador. British intelligence intercepted the Zimmerman telegram. Which made the Americans find out from the newspaper. When this happened it made the Americans think it was OK for the war with Germany was necessary to occur.
  • U.S. officially enters war

    U.S. officially enters war
    U.S officially enters war in April 6 1917. They had a vote on entering the war and only 373 to 50 voted then the america finally enters world war 1. And they had a killing of 272 people and including 27 Americans. Then the united states began to not trust the German army.
  • Selective service act draft begains

    Selective service act draft begains
    In 1917 the selective service act draft begins which was a new conscription system. The age you have to be is between 21 and 30 to register for the draft. The draft board members we the civilian from local communities. Most draft boards were the the heart of the system. More and more Americans were drafted until there was about 3.8 million Americans drafted.
  • James William Bean

    James William Bean
    William James Bean was a military policeman with the army's artillery position. He moved to France in April, 1918. He feels like he has not ever felt better in all his life but to ever go back to his home state.
  • Battle of Argonne

    Battle of Argonne
    in September 26 1918 battle of Argonne Forest which the commander of the allied forces is Marshal Ferdinand Foch. He was connected to the war because he has ordered massive counterattacks.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    Treaty of Versailles- in January 1919 27 countries traveled to France and to attend the peace conference. Every one there lasted five months in the negotiations on the treaty of Versailles. The Bolsheviks had won the war in spring of 1920.