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Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie the Duchess of Hohenburg, are killed by Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip. The Austrian government suspects that Serbia is responsible
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Australian and New Zealand troops showed up for the first time and he war with limited training. Unfortunately mistakes made by wiston chucrhill caused the ANZAC troops to land in the wrong spot and get shot at by Turkish troops
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Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans.
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The Central Powers troops cross the Danube River and within days capture Belgrade. A massive Serbian retreat follows. Soldiers and their families made their way to the Albanian border through mountains and a steady snowfall.
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This date signifies the start of the battle of Verdun. This was a battle between the German and French armies.
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was a naval battle fought between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, during the First World War.
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The battle of somme is knowkn as one of the largest battles in WW1. This battle saw the British and French armies take on the German army. This horrific battle saw more than 1 million casualties
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President Wilson signs the declaration. The United States quickly puts the entire country on the road to war. Going from a standing army of 133,000 men with almost no heavy artillery pieces,
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Britain continue to launch major offences on the Western Front
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Russian revolutionaries setup a Communist goverment, attempting to make peace with the Central Powers.
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Russia ignss a peace treaty between them and the Central Powers. (Event significant because Russia leaves the war.
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The turning point of the war, in which the Allies defeated the Central Powers and advanced continuously until the end of the war.
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in command of the valuable main bridge over the river in Chateau Thierry. U.S. machine guns overlooking the site helped save the French army, and the Germans were forced to end their attack and retreat due to extreme loss of life
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in Paris, France, some of the most powerful people in the world meet to begin the long, complicated negotiations that would officially mark the end of the First World War.
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under the close supervision of President Woodrow Wilson. The proposed new international organization was to be composed of three bodies: The Secretariat.
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The Treaty of Versailles was the main treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I.
