WWI Timeline

By tristanm16

  • WWI Starts, Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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    World War I

  • Great Britain declares war on Germany

  • Lord Kitchener calls for 100,000 men to join British army

  • First German aircraft shot down by allied craft

  • Battle of Ypres

  • Christmas Truce on the Western Front

    Germans and British played football.

  • German gas attack at Ypres

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania

  • First Zeppelin raid on London

  • Germans attack at Verdun

  • Battle of Jutland

  • Start of the Battle of the Somme

  • First use of the tanks, in the Battle of the Somme

    *Canadians take Vimy Ridge, February 1917 (VERY important if you take Canadian History because no other army was able to capture the ridge, and the Canadians were considered the underdogs at the time that they captured the ridge).

  • United States declares war on Germany

    United States joins the war.

  • United States troops arrive in France

  • King George V changes his name to Windsor

  • British attack at Passchendaele

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates

  • Armistice

    Armistice

    The end of the war.

  • Paris Peace Conference

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    Important Events Outside of the War

  • Treaty of Versailles signed