WW1

By laurendulmage
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    Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

    Heir to throne of Austria-Hungary assassinated by Serbian Nationalists, name of Gavrilo Princip

  • Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Germany declares war on Russia

    Germany invades Belgium
  • Germany declares war on France

    Germany declares war on France

  • First British troops land in France

    First British troops land in France

  • Great Britain and France declare war on Serbia

  • First confrontation on European soil since 1815

  • Battle of Coronel

    Battle of Coronel

    Germans sank 2 British ships carrying armored cruisers off the coast of Chile

  • Germany declares surrounding waters a "war zone"

  • Armenian genocide begins

    Armenian genocide begins

    Eventually killing a disputed 1.5 million
  • Allies sign Treaty of London

    Allies sign Treaty of London

    Italy commits to the Allied side
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania

    British ship blown up by German U-boats killing 128 Americans
  • Battle of Somme

    Battle of Somme

    One of the largest battles of WW1, one of the bloodiest battles in history
  • H.M.H.S Britannica sinks

    H.M.H.S Britannica sinks

    killed 30 people, sister ship to the titanic

  • British drive the Ottomans out of cyanide

  • RMS Connaught sinks in the English Channel

    3 crew dead
  • US enters the war

    US enters the war

  • First american troops land in France

    First american troops land in France

  • China declares war on Germany

    China declares war on Germany

    China wanted a seat at the bargaining table when the allies won
  • Failed gunpowder plot

    Failed gunpowder plot

    Attempt to blow up England's king
  • Woodrow Wilson delivers 4 point speech

    Woodrow Wilson delivers 4 point speech

    Reduced arms, no secret treaties, freedom of seas, fostered free trade, concerned with the interests of colonial peoples, ect.
  • USS Cyclopes disappears

    USS Cyclopes disappears

    sails into the Bermuda triangle never to be seen again
  • Flu Letter in Spain

    Flu Letter in Spain

    Devastating influenza wiping out around 500,000

  • Armistice of November 11

    too tired to continue, armistice on the 11th hour, 11th day, of the 11th month

  • Began Paris Peace Conference

    Meeting of the victorious Allied Powers following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    Established 9 new nations, bared Germany from maintaining an army, carved out 5 areas from the Ottomans to give to France and Great Britain as mandates. Contained a war guilt clause including reparations