World 1

World War One

By aaronold95

  • Archduke Assisination

    Archduke Assisination
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. His death is the event that sparks World War I.

  • Germany invades Belgium

    Germany invades Belgium
    On the 4th of August of the year 1914, German forces under Alexander von Kluck and Karl von Bulow invaded Belgium which is seen by some as the true beginning of world war one as it brought Britain into the war becuase Belgiums neutrality was guaranteed by them.

  • Germans Fire

    Germans Fire
    The Germans fire shells filled with chlorine gas at Allied lines. This is the first time that large amounts of gas are used in battle, and the result is the near-collapse of the French lines. However, the Germans are unable to take advantage of the breach.

  • Lusitania

    Lusitania
    A German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania. The ship carries 1,198 people, 128 of them Americans.

  • Zimmerman Telegraph

    Zimmerman Telegraph
    The Zimmerman Telegraph was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire offering a military alliance with Mexico, in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. Revelation of the contents outraged American public opinion, and helped generate support for the United States declaration of war on Germany.

  • U.S. Enters War

    U.S. Enters War
    Congress authorizes a declaration of war against Germany. The United States enters World War I on the side of France and Britain.

  • Battle of Cantigny

    Battle of Cantigny
    The Battle of Cantigny is the first major American offensive of the war. Though small in scale, the Americans fight bravely and soon go on to larger attacks against German positions.

  • Battle of Belleau Wood.

    Battle of Belleau Wood.
    The Battle of Belleau Wood begins as the U.S. Marine Corps attacks the Germans across an open field of wheat, suffering 10,000 casualities by the end of the battle.

  • Wilhelm Abdicates

    Wilhelm Abdicates
    Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates, ending all German hope for a victory. He and his retinue quietly slip over the border into the Netherlands where he lives out the remainder of his life in relative peace and writes a self-promoting memoir defending his actions in the war.

  • Armistice Day

    Armistice Day
    An Armistice is signed ending fighting on the Western Front