World War I

By annaestewart

  • Assaination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    A teenage Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife

  • Germany/Great Britain Declares War

    Germany declares war on Russia and France. Great Britian declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.

  • Hlollywood Californa

    Hollywood California becomes the center of movie production

  • Alexander Graham Bell makes the first transcontenintal phone call

    inventor Alexander Graham Bell (center) called up his former lab partner, Thomas Watson, in San Francisco, making the first transcontinental phone call in history. "Mr. Watson, are you there?"

  • German U boats sink the Lusitania

    1,1998 people die. The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

  • Albert Einstein proposes his general theory of relitivity

    General relativity is a theory of gravitation developed by Einstein in the years 1907–1915. The development of general relativity began with the equivalence principle, under which the states of accelerated motion and being at rest in a gravitational field (for example when standing on the surface of the Earth) are physically identical.

  • The Battles of Verdun (Somme claims millions of lives)

    The Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February – 18 December 1916 during the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies, on hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. The Battle of the Somme was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the River Somme in France. It was one of the largest battles of World War I,

  • Woodrow Wilson is reelected president.

    Incumbent President Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, was pitted against Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate.

  • Russia withdraws from the war

    Russia withdraws from the war when the Communist Party takes the reigns of the government, ceding possession of these territories to Germany, temporarily ending the threat from the east.begin a strategic withdrawal to the new Siegfried Line (called the Hindenburg Line by the Allies) which shortens the overall Front by 25 miles by eliminating an unneeded bulge. During the three-week long withdrawal, the Germans conduct a scorched earth policy, destroying everything of value.

  • Selective Service Act sets up the draft

    authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people.

  • President Wilson proposes the League of Nations.

    He hoped to keep Russia in the war by convincing the Bolsheviks that they would receive a better peace from the Allies, to bolster Allied morale, and to undermine German war support. The address was immediately hailed in the United States and Allied nations, and even by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, as a landmark of enlightenment in international relations.

  • The First World War ends.