WW1 and the Russian Civil War

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated

  • Austria declares war on Serbia

  • Germany declares war on Russia

  • Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France

  • Britain declares war on Germany

  • Ottoman Empire joins war on Germany's side

  • Lusitania is sunk

  • Italy declares war on Germany and Austria

  • President Wilson re-elected

  • Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister

  • Wilson releases Zimmerman Telegram to public

  • Protesters confront soldiers in Petrograd

  • Tsar Nicholas II abdicates

  • United States declares war on Germany

  • Bolsheviks seize power in Petrograd

  • White Army begins to organize

  • President Wilson announces 14 Points

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Signed

  • First major battle between the Red and White armies

  • President Wilson agrees to intervention in Northern Russia

  • President Wilson agrees to intervention in Siberia

  • Abdicated Tsar Nicholas II and family murdered

  • US troops land in Vladivostok (Siberia)

  • US troops land in Archangel (Northern Russia)

  • WW1 Armistice

  • Paris Peace Conference starts

  • US Secretary of War withdrawal from Northern Russia

  • US troops leave Archangel

  • Germany accepts Treaty of Versailles

  • US troops leave Vladivostok

  • Last Major battle of the Civil War (Perekop)