WWI

By maryvanslyke

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    While visiting Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, (heir to Austria-Hungary's throne) and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated by Gavrilo Princip (a Serbian nationalist.)

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Germany declares war on Russia

    because Russia was backing Serbia, and Germany was an ally of Austria-Hungary

  • Germany declares war on France

  • United Kingdom declares war on Germany

    because Germany invaded Belgium

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia declares war on Germany

  • US neutral

    US President Woodrow Wilson declares that the US will remain neutral.

  • First Battle of Marne

    Trench warfare begins

  • UK blockades Germany

    UK declares that the North Sea is a military area, and they blockade goods to Germany.

  • unofficial Chritmas truce

  • Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain

    puts into effect a submarine blockade

  • Second Battle of Ypres

    Germans first use poison gas

  • RMS Lusitania sunk

    German U-boat sinks the British ocean liner

  • Tsar Nicholas II takes control over Russia's armies

  • Battle of Verdun

    the longest and one of the bloodiest battles of WWI

  • Battle of Jutland

    the major naval battle of the war

  • Battle of Flers

    tanks are first used in battle

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Germany sends the secret Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico in an attemt to get Mexico to join the war. However, the British intercepted and deciphered the message.

  • Russian Tsar Nicholas II abdicates

  • US declares war on Germany

  • The Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian government

  • Fourteen Points to Peace

    Issued by US President Woodrow Wilson

  • Russia signs the Treaty of Brest Litovsk

    Peace treaty between R ussia and the Central Powers

  • Red Baron is shot down

    Baron Manfred von Richthofen (a German flying ace)

  • German Kaiser abdicates

    German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees Germany

  • Germany signs armistice at Compiegne, France

    fighting ends on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month

  • Treaty of Versailles

    officially ended WWI