-
Allies
Consisted of France, Britain, and Russia. Know as the triple Entente. -
1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo Princip, -
Central Powers
Consisted of the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of the war. The Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers later in 1914. In 1915, the Kingdom of Bulgaria joined the alliance. -
Schlieffen Plan
Battle plan drawn up by German military tacticians, with the objective of securing victory in the event of a war with both France and Russia. -
Sinking of British liner Lusitania
Less than a year after World War I (1914-18) erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England. -
Sinking of British liner Arabic
The Arabic was zigzagging at the time, and the commander of U-24 said that he thought she was trying to ram his submarine. He fired a single torpedo which struck the liner aft, and she sank within 10 minutes, with the loss of 44 passengers and crew, 3 of whom were American. -
Sinking of French passenger liner Sussex
Germany sparked an international diplomatic crisis when one of its submarines - UB-29, mistakenly sank a French cross-channel ferry -
Battle of the Somme
The battle was also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. -
Zimmermann note
Diplomatic proposal from the German Empire for Mexico to join the Central Powers, -
Committee on Public Information
Also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an agency (the government of the United States) created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I. -
Convoy System
Troopships travelling together with a naval escort -
Selective Service Act of 1917
authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through conscription. -
Espionage and Sedition Acts
It was intended to prohibit interference with military operations or recruitment, to prevent insubordination in the military, and to prevent the support of U.S. enemies during wartime. -
War Industries Board
Government agency established during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies. -
Food Administration
Agency responsible for the administration of the allies' food reserves. One of its important tasks was the stabilization of the price of wheat on the U. S. market. It was established by Executive Order 2679-A. -
National War Labor Board
A federal agency created by President Woodrow Wilson. Its purpose was to arbitrate disputes between workers and employers in order to ensure labor reliability and productivity during the war. It was disbanded after the war in May 1919. Contents -
Second Battle of the Marne
Or Battle of Reims (15 July – 6 August 1918) was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during the First World War -
Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies
They were in the state of collapsing -
Cease-fire and armistice
Fighting in World War I came to an end following the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany that called for a ceasefire -
Establishment of the German Republic
The Federal Republic of Germany (popularly known as West Germany) is formally established as a separate and independent nation.
