WW1

By prydejo

  • The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Germany declares war on Russia

  • Germany declares war on France, and invades Belgium

  • Great Britain declares war on Germany, US declares neutrality

  • Japan declares war on Germany

  • Battle of Tannenberg Begins in East Prussia

  • Paris is held by allies, push Germans back "Race to Sea"

  • First Battle of Ypres begins

  • Turkey enters war, sides with Germany

  • First Battle of Ypres ends

  • First Battle of Champagne occurs, Germans push back French Invaders

  • The Christmas Truce, Allied commanders forbid peaced

  • Allied powers go on the offensive

  • The first German zeppelin attacks on England

  • German U-boat attacks on allied and neutral shipping; Declares blockade on Britain

  • First passenger ship sinks

  • Great Britain blockades German ports

    Causes retaliation

  • The Germans for the first time uses poison gas, which causes the second battle of Ypres

  • Secret Treaty of London occurs between France, Russia, Italy, and Britain

  • U-boat sinks British Liner Lusitania with loss of american lives, creating a US-German diplomatic Crisis

  • Italy ignores treaty agreement and declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • Second Battle of Ypres ends

  • Tsar Nicholas takes control of Russian army

  • Germany captures warsaw

  • The Second Battle of Champagne begins

  • Sir Douglas Haig replaces Sir John as commander of British Expeditionary Forcer

  • German attack on Verdun in the longest battle of the war

    Ultimately defended by the French at great cost to both sides

  • Pancho Villas raid on Columbus, New Mexico

  • French passenger ship Sussex torpedoed

  • Germany renounces submarine policy

  • Battle of Jutland begins

    The Biggest Naval Battle in history, ultimately without a clear victor

  • With British support, Hassein, lead an Arab revolt against the Turks in the Hedaz

  • Start of the Battle of the Somme

    The greatest number of casualties in British military history

  • Romania enters the war with the Allies

    But is quickly overun by German forces

  • Italy declares war on Germany

  • Germany suspends submarine assults

  • Tanks introduced for the first time on the Somme battlefield by the British

  • First German airplane air-raid on Britain

  • Germany issues peace note suggesting compromise peace

  • US President Woodrow Wilson requests statements of war objectives from warring nations in peace note

  • Battle of Verdun ends

  • Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare

  • US severs diplomatic ties with Germany

  • Zimmermann Telegram is passed to the US by Britain

    Detailing alleged German proposal of an alliance with Mexico against the US

  • Zimmerman Telegram published in US press

  • Tsar Nicholas 2 abdicates as a consequence of Russian Revolution

  • US President Woodrow Wilson delivers war address to congress

  • US declares war on Germany

  • Pershing leaves New York for France

  • End of the Battle of Jutland

  • Pershing revises army request figures upwards to 3,000,000

  • First US troops arrive in France, 1st Division

  • Bolsheviks Revolution in Russia

    Results in Communist government under Lenin taking office

  • US declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • Russia opens separate peace negotiations with Germany

  • US President Woodrow Wilson makes "Fourteen Points" speech to congress

  • US President Woodrow Wilson agrees to US intervention in Siberia

  • Former Tsar Nicholas 2, his wife and children, are murdered by the Bolshevikes

  • US Forces clear the St. Mihiel salient

    During which the greatest air assault of the war is launched by the US

  • Haig's forces storm the Hindenburg Line

    Breaking through at several points

  • Germany negotiates an armsistice with the allies in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at compiegne

  • Armistice day; Fighting ceases at 11 am

  • Communist revolt in Berlin

  • Start of peace negotiations in Paris

  • Peace conference accepts principle of a League of nations

  • German national assembly meets in Weimar

  • Treaty of Versailles drafted and signed