WWI Timeline

By Peyton MacLeod Frampton

  • Competition for Colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific

  • Nations Acted on Their Own Interests and Caused Warfare to Breakout

  • Prepping Through Militarism Made All Countries Wary and Expecting War

  • President Wilson Announces Neutrality in the War

  • Archduke Francis Ferdinand is Assassinated in Sarajevo

    starts world war one
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    WWI Timeline

  • Sinking of the Lusitania/ infuriates americans

    germany warns US civilians to stay off british ships.

  • Zimmermann note

    secret note to Mexico trying to bribe them to attack the US

  • Sussex pledge was formed

    german agrees to warn ships before attacking

  • Lever Food and Fuel Control Act

    gave the president the ability to control the amount of food and fuel to be monitored and rationed to the war effort

  • Daylight Savings Time

    pushing the clock forward an hour to gain more daylight hours to work

  • Espionage/ Sedition Act

    outlawed any act that encouraged rebellion

  • First American Soldiers to Europe

    troops in france providing help that the allies didn't wat

  • Russian revolution

    the change from royals to republicans

  • Selective Service Act

    the act drafting young men for the war

  • Fourteen Points

    the nations to "Be made safe for each peace loving nation which, like our own,wishes to live it's own life, determine it's own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other people's of the world as against force and selfish aggression."- Pres. Wilson

  • Armistice

    a cease-fire signed by a civilian german republican

  • Paris Peace Conference

    the talk of a permanent peace treaty

  • Treaty of Versailles

    peace treaty

  • league of nations

  • Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia are created