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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife heir to the Austrian throne, visit Sarajevo, but are killed by an assassin, focusing their anger on Serbia. Its significant in the sense of this makes thing harder for the US and more challenging to understand. -
The US declares itself to be neutral from WW1,Germany is put to war by Great Britain. All British Empire territories, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa. -
The British passenger ship Lusitania is hit off the coast of Ireland by a German U-boat. 128 Americans are part of 1,201 people who drown when it sinks in 18 minutes. Four diplomatic protests will be sent to Germany by President Woodrow Wilson. -
President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected by Americansusing the campaign phrase, "He kept us out of war." -
British intercepted a transmission revealing motives for a German Mexicanalliance against the United States. -
The United States of America declares war on Germany -
The first American troops land in France. -
During the First Battle of the Marne, Allied forces stop the German advance into France. Germany launches a naval blockade of the United Kingdom. On the Ottoman Empire's Gallipoli Peninsula, Allied forces make their landing. -
The Germans sign the Armistice in a train car in Compiègne, France, at 5:10 a.m. and it goes into effect at 11 a.m., which is the 11th minute of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Up until roughly eleven o'clock, fighting rages along the Western Front, with 2,000 damage suffered by all sides that particular morning. As 11 am gets closer, artillery barrages also break out as men want to say had fired the final shot of the battle. -
A German army formally ends the war by signing the Treaty at the Palace of Versailles in France. The sentences in its 230 pages are not as similar to Wilson's Fourteen Points as the Nazis had intended. Mass protests against the perceived degree, specifically clauses that place all of the blame for the war on Germany, are the response from Germans back home.