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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife,Sophie, was assasinated in Bosnia by a serbian named Princip,a member of the "Blach Hand". -
Austria war on Serbia
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia because they had just taken over Bosnia but people there considered themselves as Serbs and wanted Bosnia to be part of Serbia. A member from a Serbian group called the Black Hand group assaninated Austria's next in line to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Austria blamed Serbia for this so sent them an ultimatum. The Serbian government couldn't fulfil all the demands so Austria declared war on Serbia. -
Germany war on Russia
Germany in WW1 declared war on russia because they claimed that russia had already crossed their frontier and already started the war. -
Germany war on France
Germany had been drawing up their plan for war, the Schlieffen plan, since 1897. It worked on the basis that they would be at war with Russia and France at the same time.
However, this plan started to go wrong on the 30th of July 1914, when Russia mobil -
British Declaration of War
Germany did not withdraw from Belgium and Britain declared war on Germany. -
Japan War on Germany
Japan declared war on Germany through her alliance with Great Britain, signed in 1902. -
Battle of Tannenburg
The Battle of Tannenberg was Germany's most successful battle of the whole war. -
Battle of Masurian Lake
Having defeated the Russian Second army, the Germans turned their attention to the Russian First army at Masurian Lakes. Although the Germans were unable to defeat the army completely, over 100,000 Russians were taken prisoner. -
Turkey enters war to help Germany
Turkey entered the war on the side of the central powers and gave help to a German naval bombardment of Russia. -
Russia War on Turkey
Because of the help given by Turkey to the German attack of Russia, Russia declared war on Turkey. -
Zeppelins
The first Zeppelins appeared over the English coast. -
Zeppelin Bombing
Zeppelin airships dropped bombs on Yarmouth. -
Dardenelles
The Russians appealed for help from Britain and France to beat off an attack by the Turkish. The British navy responded by attacking Turkish forts in the Dardenelles. -
Winston Churchill Resigns
Winston Churchill, critical of the Dardenelles campaign, resigned his post as First Lord of the Admiralty. He rejoined the army as a battalion commander. -
Dardanelles/ Gallipoli
Despite the loss of several ships to mines, the British successfully landed a number of marines in the Gallipoli region of the Dardenelles. Unfortunately the success was not followed up and the mission was a failure.Apr-Aug 1915 -
Second Battle of Ypres
Poison gas was used for the first time during this battle. The gas, fired by the Germans claimed many British casualties. -
Lusitania sunk
There outraged protests from the United States at the German U-boat campaign, when the Lusitania, which had many American passengers aboard, was sank. The Germans moderated their U-boat campaign. -
Italy
Italy entered the war on the side of the Allies. -
Battle of Verdun
Although the fighting continued for nine months, the battle was inconclusive. Casualties on both sides with the Germans losing 430,000 men and the French 540,000. -
Romania enters the War
Romania joined the war on the side of the Allies. But within a few months was occupied by Germans and Austrians -
Battle of Jutland
This was the only truly large-scale naval battle of the war. German forces, confined to port by a British naval blockade, came out in the hope of splitting the British fleet and destroying it ship by ship. -
Battle of the Somme
The five month long battle saw the deaths of 420,000 British soldiers (60,000 on the first day), 200,000 French soldiers and 500,000 German soldiers all for a total land gain of just 25 miles. -
German U-Boat Campaign
In Germany, orders were given to step up the U-boat campaign. All allied or neutral ships were to be sunk on sight and in one month almost a million tons of shipping was sunk. -
US Declare War on Germany
The United States of America declared war on Germany in response to the sinking, by German U boats, of US ships. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russians signed an Armistice with Germany at Brest-Litovsk. Russia had to surrender Poland, the Ukraine and other regions. They had to stop all Socialist propaganda directed at Germany and pay 300 million roubles for the repatriation of Russian prisoners. -
RAF formed
The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were merged to form the Royal Air Force. -
Battle of Amiens
The British general, Haig, ordered the attack of the German sector at Amiens. -
Allies Recover France & Belgium
The allies had taken almost all of German-occupied France and part of Belgium. -
Armistice with Turkey
The allies had successfully pushed the Turkish army back and the Turks were forced to ask for an armistice. The terms of the armistice treaty allowed the allies access to the Dardenelles. -
Hindenberg line collapsed
By the beginning of November the allies had pushed the Germans back beyond the Hindenberg line. -
Kaiser Abdicated
Kaiser Wilhelm II was abdicated -
Armistice Signed
At 11 am, in the French town of Redonthes, the Armistice was signed bringing the war to an end.
END OF WAR
