WWI

By devonnebrown

  • Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo

    Gets shot by a crazy person

  • Germany declares war on Russia.

    Hell breaks loose

  • Germany declares war on France

  • Austria- Hungary declares war on Russia

  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces the U.S. will remain neutral

    We always want to stay neutral and then get dragged in somehow

  • War becomes "Total War" with German Zeppelin air raid on England

  • Allied troops landed in Gallipoli

    here to save the day

  • U-boat sinks the Lusitania. 1,198 civilians, including 128 Americans die.

  • Italy declared war on Germany and Austria

    Bad decisions

  • Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

  • David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister of Britain.

  • Germany again declares unrestricted submarine warfare

  • USA declares war on Germany

    We're about to win this war and no one has a shot at winning

  • President Woodrow Wilson declares his 14 points as the path to permanent world peace.

  • Former Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, children, and members of his entourage are murdered by the Bolsheviks.

  • President Wilson agrees to co-operate with Allies in sending "volunteer" troops into Russia.

  • Germany’s navy mutinied

    They yeeted out of there

  • Turks sign armistice

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates.

  • Peace conference met at Paris

    Lets all be friends now that we have destroyed everything and everyone

  • The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Germans.

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