WW1 TImeline

  • Powder Keg

    alternately known as the "Balkan Powder Keg", refers to the Balkans in the early part of the 20th century preceding World War I
  • Militarism, Imperialism, Nationalism, Alliance system lead to war

    three points that contributed most to World War 1
  • xenophobia

    fear of people from other countries
  • Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinard

    The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinard was the start of World War I.
  • Lusitania

    Large passenger shut that was assaulted by the German submarine, U20, 114 Americans were killed.
  • "He kept us out of War"

    slogan that Woodrow Wilson used in his campaign for president
  • ZImmerman Telegraph

    message from German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a German Mexican alliance in the case of war
  • War industry board created

    designed to coordinate the war role of American industry
  • General Pershing And American Expeditionary Force

    the US troops were sent into Europe under General Perishing’s command to fight in World War 1
  • Russian Revolution

    dismantled the tsarist autocracy, lead to the rise of the Soviet Union
  • Selective Service Act

    authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people
  • Espionage Act

    An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, and the foreign commerce of the United States, and better the law enforcement in America.
  • Russian Overthrow Czar

    during the Russian revolution
  • Influenza pandemic

    killed more people than the war, considered the most devastating recorded epidemic in world history
  • 14 points

    statement of principles for world peace, used to create peace negations to end World War 1
  • Sedition Act

    Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses such as speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in any negative way.
  • Big Four Meets

    Four heads of state at Versailles...David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and Woodrow Wilson of the USA meet to decide peace terms
  • Great Migration

    6 million African American moved from the south to the north
  • Schneck vs United States

    Supreme Court decision concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I.
  • Red Scare

    Promoted the fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. The Second Red Scare was focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles is one of the peace treaties at the end of World War 1, ended war between Germany and allied powers.