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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungarain throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohengerg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip. Gavrilo was one of the six Serbian assasins. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
One month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were shot dead, Austira-Hungary declared war on Serbia. They blamed Serbia on the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. -
Germany declares war on Russia and France
Almost two days after Germany declaring war on Russia, Germany declares was on France. -
Britain declares war on Germany
Germany invaded Belguim, following their strategy knwon as the Schlieffen Plan. The plan made Germany hold war against Russia, so they could do go from Belguim to Paris faster. -
United States delcares neutrality
Woodrow Wilson's hope was that American could be "impartial in thought as well in action". -
Battle of Marne
30 miles northeast of Paris, the French Army, under the control of General Michel-Joeseph Manoury attacked the flank of the German 1st Army, beginning the First Battle of Marne -
Lusitania Sunk
This British ship was torpedoed by a Gemran Submarine off the coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessels sank into the Celtic Sea -
Battle of Somme
July 1-November 18, 1916. This battle was fought near the Somme River in France. The British suffered more than 75,000 casualties, and by the end the Allies and Central Powers would loose more than 1.2 million men. -
Woodrow Wilson re elected
Woodrow Wilson is ranked by historians one of the nations greatest presidents. He served in ofice from 1913 to 1921 -
Germany announces unrestricted sub warfare
A lethal threat of the German U-boat submarine. The unrestricted submarine wargare was the first introduced in World War 1 -
Russian Revolution
Troops open fire on a peaceful group of workers marching to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg -
Zimmermann Telegram
This was a message from the Germany foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexian-German alliance in the case of a war between the United States and Germany -
United States declares war on Germany
Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States. He was uncertain hwo the war woud emerge. Japans attack on Pearl Harbor ansered that question. The U.s. Navy was attacking German U-boats, and Hitler hated Roosevelt for his repeated verbal attacks against the Nazi party. -
Selective Service Act
This gave the U.S. president the powre to draft soldiers. -
Espionage Act AND Sedition Act
Two months after America's formal entrance into Wold War I against Germany, U.S. Congress passes the Espionage Act. This act was reinforced by the Sedition Act of the following year, which harsh penalties to anyone found guilty of making false statements -
Wilson's Fourteen Points
This was a document of "14 points" for achieving a lasting peace in Europe. It called for unselfish peace terms from the Allies, to resolve future conflict, This speech was distributed to the soldiers and citizens of Germany and Austria-Hungary. -
United States flue epidemic
500 million people worldwide got infected by this disease. More than 25% of the U.S. population became sick and some 675,000 Americans died of this pandemic. -
Armistice
Germany agreed to a cease-fire and signed the armistice, or a truce, to end the war -
Paris: Peace Conference
This would formally end World War I, and lay the gourndwork for the formation of the League of Nations -
Treaty of Versailles
Thsi was signed in the Versailles Palace outside Paris, between Allied and Aassociated Powers, and Germany, which brought World War I to an end.
