WW1

By Evelynmorrison1

  • 6/28/1914

    6/28/1914
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. They were shot to death by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian student and member of the Serbian secret society "Black Hand".

  • 7/28/1914

    7/28/1914
    one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War.

  • 8/4/1914

    8/4/1914
    Great Britain declared war on Germany at 11:00 p.m. for violating Belgian neutrality. The United States declared neutrality at the outbreak of World War I. With Great Britain formally at war, the Dominions of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand entered World War I.

  • 5/7/1915

    5/7/1915
    Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany pledges his country's unconditional support for whatever action Austria-Hungary chooses to take in its conflict with Serbia, a long-running rivalry thrown into crisis by the assassination, the previous June 28, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife.

  • 11/7/1915

    11/7/1915
    Battle of Krivolak — The French failed to capture an important Bulgarian stronghold located at a monastery in the Vardar Macedonia region.

  • 1/19/1917

    1/19/1917
    The British intercept a telegram sent by Alfred Zimmermann in the German Foreign Office to the German embassies in Washington, D.C., and Mexico City. Its message outlines plans for an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States.

  • 4/6/1917

    4/6/1917
    the United States formally declared war against Germany and entered the conflict in Europe. ... For three years, President Woodrow Wilson strove to maintain American neutrality. Anti-war sentiment ran across the political spectrum.

  • 6/25/1917

    6/25/1917
    Battle of Mount Ortigara – Shock troops with the Austro-Hungarian Army pushed 11 Italian divisions off the Mount Ortigara summit, regaining their important defensive position in Asiago, Italy.

  • 11/11/1918

    11/11/1918
    after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I.

  • 6/28/1919

    6/28/1919
    Germany and the Allies signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending World War I and providing for the creation of the League of Nations.