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WW1 Timeline

By brittneyavery6

  • Assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand

    Shot to death by a Bosnian Serb Nationalist "Black Hand"

  • Austria Declared War on Serbia

  • Germany declared war on Russia

  • Germany Declared War on France

    Germany invaded Belguim. Germany had to implement the Schlieffen Plan.

  • Britain declared war on Germany

  • Turkey Enters the War on Germany's side

    Trench warefare stat to dominate the western front.

  • British Blockade on Germany

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania

  • The Sussex Pledge

    The Sussex Pledge

    Germany promises not to attack cargo, merchants, and passenger ships as long as British followed international law.

  • The sinking of the French Passenger Ship, Sussex

    The Sussex was torpeodoed by the Germans. President Wilson threatened to break realtions with Germany. Led to the Sussex Pledge
  • Congress Declares War on Germany

    Congress Declares War on Germany

  • Selective Service Act

    Selective Service Act

  • Seperate Peace Between Germany and Russia-Part1

    An armistice was agreed upon and went into effect. Focus was no longer on the eastern front but on the western front.

  • Seperate Peace Between Germany and Russia-Part 2

    Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litousk with the Central Powers, leaving the Allied war effort.

  • Armistic Declared

    between US and Germany
  • Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

    Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

    ended WW1