WWI

By helenamontoya
  • Assasination of Austria - Hungary's heir

    Assasination of Austria - Hungary's heir

  • Austria - hungary declares war on serbia

  • Germany declares war on Russia

  • Germany declares war on France

  • Great Britain Declares war on Germany

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia

  • Serbia declares war on Germany

  • Neutrality declared by America

    Neutrality declared by America

    President Woodrow Wilson declares America's neutrality
  • Battle of Tannenberg Begins

    Battle of Tannenberg Begins

  • First Battle of Marne Begins

    First Battle of Marne Begins

  • Unofficial Christmas Truce

    Unofficial Christmas Truce

    Soldiers from both sides met up in no mans land and celebrated christmas
  • Dardenelles Campaign begins

    Dardenelles Campaign begins

    Dardanelles: the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks

  • Second battle of Ypres begins

    Germans first use poisonous gas in this battle
  • Lusitania is sunk

    Lusitania is sunk

    British ship Lusitania is sunk by german u-boat 20
  • Battle of Verdun begins

    Battle of Verdun begins

    The longest battle and one of the bloodiest
  • Tanks are introduced in Battle of Somme

    Tanks are introduced in Battle of Somme

  • Zimmerman note is intercepted by the British

    Zimmerman note is intercepted by the British

  • America declares war on Germany

  • Bolsheviks successfully overthrow Russian government

    Bolsheviks successfully overthrow Russian government

    " The Bolsheviks were originally a faction of the Russian Social and Democratic Labour Party - a Marxist, communist party. They split with the rest of the party over minor procedural differences, and the division crystallised into a a permanent split in 1912. The other faction were known as the Mensheviks. Bolshevik means majority, Menshevik means minority. They were led by Vladimir Lenin and they seized power in the October Revolution of 1917." (http://www.marxist.com/)
  • Fourteen Points of Peace

    Fourteen Points of Peace

    President Woodrow Wilson issues his fourteen points of peace.

  • Treaty is issued between Russia and Central Powers

  • Red Baron is shot down

  • Second Battle of Marne Begins

  • German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees Germany.

    German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees Germany.

    Renounces his throne

  • Germany signs the armistice at Compiegne, France

    Fighting ends on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month (i.e. 11 a.m. on November 11).
  • WWI ends with Treaty of Versailles

    WWI ends with Treaty of Versailles