WW1 Events

By Salvi Erut
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    Franco-Prussian war.

    This was a conflict between the Second French Empire (then the Third French Republic) and the German states of the North German Confederation.

  • Triple Alliance.

    An Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy was formed.
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    Russo-Japanese War.

    This was a war fought by the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan.

  • Alfred Von Schlieffen started shaping "Schlieffen plan"

  • Triple Entente.

    A new Allience was formed between Britain, Russia and France.

  • "Schlieffen plan" took motion by Von Moltke

  • Battle of Marne

  • Franz Ferdinand murder.

    Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofía Chotek were shot and killed by members of "The Black Hand", a Serbian terrorist group.

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

    After the Archduke and heir to the throne Fraz Ferdinand was killed by the Black hand, a Serbian terrorist group.

  • Germany delares war on Russia.

    It was known that Russia was going to defend Serbia, so Germany declared war o Russia so as to "defend" Austria-Hungary.

  • Germany declares war on France.

  • Britain declares war on Germany.

    Britained went on defending the other two members of "The Triple Entente", (Russia and France) from Germany.
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    Battle of the Ardenas

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    Battle of San Quintín

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    First Battle of the Marne

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    First Battle of Ypres

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    Battle of Gallipoli

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    Second Battle of Ypres

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    Battle of Loos

  • Battle of the Somme.

    This was a trench battle. Around 1 million soldiers were killed, wounded or missing.
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    Battle of Verdun

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    Battle of Jutland

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    Battle of Somme

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    Communist and non-communist revolutions

    Short-term consequence:
    Between 1917 and 1923 there where lots of revolutions.
    Communistic revolutions in: Russia, Central Europe, USA and China.
    Non-communstic revolutions in: Greece, Ireland and Mexico.

  • Europe's economy fell

    This was a long-term consequence. Europe countries had to pay all the cost of the war and to repair and build again their countries and economy. This affected especially to Germany as they had to pay the reparations signed in The Treaty of Versailles.

  • End of the WWI

  • Paris Peace Conference

  • Growth of Socialism and Fascism

    Short-term consequence:
    This political ideas started growing around some european countries such as Italy, etc, with the Fascist Manifesto in 1919.

  • Signing of The Treaty of Versailles