WWI timeline

  • Archduke Ferdinand Francis was assassinated

    Archduke Ferdinand Francis was assassinated
  • Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia

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    Austrians lost in the Battle of Lemburg

  • Germany attempted to blockade Great Britain

  • Germans first used chloride poisonous gas

  • German submarine sank the British ship Lusitania

  • British troops withdraw from Gallipoli

  • 10,000 British troops surrender to the Turks

  • British Army first used tanks

    British Army first used tanks
  • British Army first used tanks

  • The USA declared war on Germany

  • First American troops land in France

  • US President Wilson reveals “Fourteen Points” for peace

    US President Wilson reveals “Fourteen Points” for peace
  • Russian signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  • Allied forces reduced