World War I Timeline

By alison0110

  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

    He was next in line for the Austro-Hungarian throne

  • Schlieffen Plan

    was the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilise her forces near the German border.

  • Trench warfare began

    200,000 men died in this battle

  • Christmas Truce along Western Front

    122 people dies

  • Germans introduce poison gas