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Begining of World War 1
Archduke Fransis Ferinad was assassinated.
President at this time was Wilson.
He was assassinated in Sarajevo. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
Threatened by Serbian ambition in the tumultuous Balkans region of Europe, Austria-Hungary determined that the proper response to the assassinations was to prepare for a possible military invasion of Serbia. -
Germany declares war on France
Germany declares war on France, moving ahead with a long-held strategy conceived by the former chief of staff of the German army. Germany, readying its troops to move into the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, which it had forfeited to Germany in the settlement that ended the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. -
Battle of Ypres begins.
The land surrounding Ypres to the north is flat and canals and rivers link it to the coast. The major centre in this part of Flanders was Ypres. British troops entered Ypres in October 1914 -
The Battle of Gallipoli begins
This battle was fought between the Entente Forces and the old Ottaman Empire of Turkey. Gallipoli is a peninsula located in northwest Turkey, between Dardanelles and the Gulf of Saros. During the First World War. -
Russian Tsar Nicholas II abdicates.
In March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule, which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve in an era desperate for change. -
The Battle of Passchendaele begins.
.The attack at Passchendaele was Sir Douglas Haig's attempt to break through Flanders.The main assault was led by Sir Hubert Gough's Fifth Army.The Germans, as happened at the Somme, were fully prepared and the Allied attack, launched across a eleven mile front, made only small gains. -
President Woodrow Wilson 14 points
Wilson's speech on January 8, 1918, took many of the principles of progressivism that had produced domestic reform in the U.S. and translated them into foreign policy. Fourteen Points speech was the only explicit statement of war aims by any of the nations fighting in World War I. Some belligerents gave general indications of their aims, but most kept their post-war goals private. -
Germany launches the Spring Offensive.
Spring Offensive was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during World War I. There were four separate German attacks, codenamed Michael, Georgette, Gneisenau and Blücher-Yorck, and launched in that order.Michael was the main attack, which was intended to break through the Allied lines. -
The Treaty of Versailles officially ends WWI
The Versailles Treaty was the peace settlement between Germany and the Allied Powers that officially ended World War I. Considering that in many ways the Versailles Treaty was meant to punish Germany, Germany of course found much fault with the Versailes Treaty.
