WW1

By 17Murphydarin

  • Allies

    • One of the major defence alliances in Europe during WW1
    Members - France, Britain, Russia

  • Central Powers

    • One oof the major defense alliances during WW1
    Members - Germany, Austria Hungary, Ottomon empire

  • Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    • Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the Austrian throne was assinated by a serbian nationalists on his trip to sarajevo
    • Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia
    • Alliance system brought the rest of Europe into the war

  • Schlieffen Plan

    • A holding action against Russia, combined with a quick drive through Belgium to Paris; after France had fallen, the two German armies would defeat Russia

  • Sinking of British liner Lusitania

    • After Britain blockades Germany preventing them from recieving rescources
    • An angered Germany states that any ship on the Britsh coast or presumed to be trading with Britain will be shot down
    • British cruze liner carrying 1, 198 American Passengers was shot down

  • Sinking of British liner Arabic

    • Not three months after the sinking og the Lusitania
    • Arabic was sunk and two American passengers were killed

  • Sinking of French passenger liner Sussex

    • The US protested Germany's previous antions and it was promised that no more ships would be sunk
    • The Sussex sank and 80 passengers were injured or killed some were Americans

  • Battle of Somme

    • One o he first battles in which trench warfare was used

  • Zimmermann Note

    • Britain intercepted a telegram from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico
    • Relayed to the US it said that if Mexico sided with Germany they would be given back territory in Texas taken from them by the US

  • Selective Service Act

    • Required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service
    • By the end of 1918, 24 million men had registered under the act. Of this number, almost 3 million were called up

  • Second Battle of the Marne

    • The start of US involvement in the war
    • A turning point in the war and a allied advantage

  • Convoy System

    A method used to combat German submarine( U - Boat) attacks on merchant ships
    • A heavy guard of destroyers would escort merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups

  • Austria - Hungary surrenders to the Allies

    • Austria - Hungary surrendered to the Allies contributing to Germany's collapse

  • Establishment of the German Republic

    • German soldier mutinied against government authority and the mutiny quickly spread all throughout Germany
    • Groups of soldiers and workers organized revolutionary councils leading to the socialist leaders in the capital, Berlin, to establish a German republic

  • Cease - Fire & Armistice

    • No Allied soldiers were on German territory and no decisive battle had been fought, but German's were exhausted from mutinies at home and a change in their government
    • Germany agreed to cease fire and signed the armistice ending the war