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France loses Alsace and Lorraine to Germany
Alsace-Lorraine
This was a territory created by the German Empire after it annexed most of Alsace and the Moselle department of Lorraine following its voctory in the Franco-Prussian War. The territory was made up of 93% of Alsace and 26% of Lorraine. For historical reasons, specific legal dispositions are still applied in the territory in the form of a "local law". -
Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicates
Nicholas II of Russia Nicholas was neither trained nr inclined to rule, that didnt help that autocracy he sough.t to preserve in an era desperate for chnage. The messy outcome of the Russo-Japanese War led to the Russian Revolution of 1905, which Czar diffused only after signing a manifesto promising representative government and basic civil liberties in Russia. Soon after that Nicholas retracted most of these concessions. -
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Russo-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions . Threat was made by Russian expansion, Japan offered to recognize Russian dominance in Manchuria in exchange fir recogniition of Korea as within Japanese sphere of influenece. Russia refused and demanded Korea to be a neutral buffer zone between Russia and Japan. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday This event happened when unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Bloody Sunday caused grave consequences for the Tsarist autocracy governing Imprial Russia , showing disregard for ordinary people which undermuined the state. -
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Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia
Bosnian crisis
Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of territories formally within the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire. This unilateral action timed to coincide with Bulgaria's declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire sparked protestations from all the Great Powers and Austria-Hungary's Balkan neighbours. In April 1909 the Treaty of Berlin was amended to reflect the fait accompli and bring the crisis to an end. -
Germany invades Belgium
German invasion of BelgiumBelgian gvernment had announced that if war came it would uphold its historic neutrality. Germany sent an ultimatum to Belgium, Germany demanded a a passage through the country and they invaded Luxembourg. The Belgian government refused the demands and the British government guaranteed military support to Belgium. The German goernment declared war on Belgium on August 4th and troops crossed the border and attacked the Belgian city. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Assassination of Archduke Frans Ferdinand of AustriaIt occure in Sarajevo, they were shot dead. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slave provinces. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
Serbia Campaign of World War I
The front ranged from the Danube to southern Macedonia and back north again, involving forces from almost all the combatants of the war. The Serbian Army declined severely towards the end of the war, falling from about 420,000 at its peak to about 100,000 at the moment of liberation. The Kingdom of Serbia lost more than 1,100,000 inhabitants during the war (27% overall population). -
Russia mobilizes army
The History Place After Russia got defeated in the Franco Prussian War, Russia didnt want to seem vulnerable to all the other European countries. Then they promised France that they would support them because they found out Germany declared war on France. Soon after that France urged Russia to mobilize because they were afraid Germany would make an immediate attack. -
Schlieffen Plan put into action
Schlieffen Plan
The name was given after World War I to the thinking behind the German invasion of France and Belgium in August 1914. Field Marshal Alfred Von Schlieffen was the Chief of the Imperial German General Staff, in 1905 and 1906 he devised a depoloyment plan for a war-winning offensive, in a one-front war against the French Third Republic. -
Start of the Battle of Marne
First Battle of the Marne
This battle was also known as Miracle of the Marne. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German Army. The battle was the culmination of the German advance into France and pursuit of the Allied armies which followed the Battle of the Frontiers in August and had reached the eastern outskirts of Paris. A counter-attack by six Frech field armies and the British Expeditionary Force. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania The sinking of the Lusitania occured during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat and sank in 18 minutes. -
Start of the Battle of Verdun
Battle of Verdun
This battle was on of the largest battles of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French Armies. The battle took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. The German 5th Army attacked the defences of the RFV and those of the Sedcond Army garrisons on the right bank of the Meuse, intending to rapaidly capture the CDM which Verdun could be overlooked and bombarded. -
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Start of the Battle of the Somme
Battle of the Somme
The battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place on both sides of the River Somme in France. It was one of the largest battles of World War I, which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history. -
Zimmerman Telegraph found
Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office, that proposed a militay alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States entering World War I against germany. The proposal was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence. -
US enters WWI
US entered World War IUS joined its allies (Britain, France, and Russia) to fight in World War I. More than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefeilds in France . Many Americans were not in favor of the U.S. entering the war and wanted to remain neutral -
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Russian Cival War
Russian Cival War
This war was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Rsussia's political future. The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting the Bolshevik form of socialism, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favoring monarchism, capatilism and alternative socialism. -
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October Revolution
October Revolution
It is also known as Red October . the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution. The October Revolution was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution on 1917. It took place with an armed unsurrection in Petrograd. It followed and capitalized on the february Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in provisional government. -
Fourteen Points proposed
Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of princupiles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by Presidents Woodrow Wilson. Europeans generally welcomed Wilson's points but his main Allied colleagues were skeptical of the applicability of Wilson idealism. -
Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
This treaty was a peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government and Soviet Russia and the Central Powers, that ended Russia's participation in World War I. The treaty was signed at Brest-Litovsk, after two months of negotiations. The treaty was was forced on the Bolshevik government by the threat of further advances by German and Austrian forces. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
First World War with little regard for the civilisn government. An ineffective war-time leader, he lost the support of the army, abdicated in November 1918, and fled to exile in the Netherlands. -
Armistice Signed
It was signed between the Allies of World War I and Germnay at Compiegne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning. The date was declared a national holiday in many allied nations. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
Treaty of Verailles
It was signed exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franzs Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in a seperate treaties. Although the armistice ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. -
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Stalin takes over Russia
Joseph Stalin
Stalin was one of the seven members of the first Poliburo, founded in order to manage the Bolshevik Revolution. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution , Stalin was appointed General Secretay of the party's Central Committee in 1922. He remained general secretay until the post was abolished in 1952, concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 onwrad.
