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A teen Serbian revolutionary shot Ferdinand and his wife on their trip to Sarajevo. The archduke had thought the Serbs to be "pigs," "thieves," and "murderers". When the teen found out about Ferdinand's trip, he began to plot his assassination. He did not agree with the Archduke's thoughts about Serbia and wanted independence. This caused him to want to assassinate the archduke, to try ad get this freedom. -
Exactly one month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. On July 25th, the Austrian government broke all ties with Serbia and went ahead with preparing the military. Russia was one of Serbia's supporters and quickly began working on its own military, fearing the outbreak of the conflict. On July 28th, 1914, in response to Germany's pressure for quick action, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. -
The German Government had declared the British waters to be a war zone, and no shipping would be allowed there. The Lusitania sailed to Britain from New York with 1959 people on board. A few days later, while the Lusitania was 15 miles south of Ireland, a German submarine torpedoed the Lusitania. A second explosion then followed, and the ship sank in less than 20 minutes. The sinking of the ship caused an outcry throughout the world. -
The Battle of Verdun was the longest and bloodiest battle in modern history. It was created by the German Chief of General Staff to secure the victory for Germany on the Western Front. The main goal was to defeat the French Army before their Allies grew stronger. This battle ended during the winter due to the harsh conditions. The casualties from both sides ended in around 700,000 total, a lot say it is because Germany launched at least 2 million shells during the open bombardment.
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Captain E.M. Bill was at the embarkation camp, and he wrote a letter, which is presumed to be to his family, that he left with a friend to mail after he left overseas. He said he wanted to write to them to relieve their anxiety and worries about him leaving. He explains that he might not come home, but it would be a sacrifice that he had to make, and he fully expects to be home on time. -
On this day, they started having things get messed up and not going in the way they are supposed to. The rations were getting light for a couple of days, and then got back to full rations over and over. They were not allowed to have waste at all, which means men started to get fat. This didn't help them with their problems, but only made them worse. They are trying to get back into their routine and in their best shape again. -
These days, they have started following routine work, drills, and fatigue. Which had kept growing harder each day, the discipline was regarding the conduct of the men, and he could tell they were starting to get more tired of it every day. He later found out that the guys were starting to talk about the discipline and what they were planning to do. He just wanted to succeed and get the satisfaction of being able to participate in an active war like the others. -
Captain E. M. Bill has been waiting for them to move into the action and the front. The front is moving so fast that he is afraid he will miss the action and excitement of the war. He is afraid that this will result in a 'vacation' or trip to France at government expense. He is expressing that he wants to be part of the war and help as best he can. He finds being in the action fun, rather than going to France for no reason at the government's expense -
Captain E. M. Bill is getting scared that he will not be able to be a part of the action. He states that quite a few officers are being ordered to the states, but he hasn't been that lucky. He is becoming very anxious that the war is going to be over before he can join. He also wants to stay long enough overseas to be able to get a gold stripe on his left sleeve. He has spent most of his time in France looking after his men who rode the famous "Hommes 40-Chevaus 8" Cars.
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The Treaty of Versailles is the peace treaty that formally ended WWI. This treaty forced Germany to accept that they were at fault for the war, which caused them to lose 68,000 km² of territory and a limited amount of its military, they also had to pay money back to France after they had already lost so much. These terms led to Resentment in Germany and are considered to have contributed to the large outbreak of WWII.
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