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Germany declares war on Russia.
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The United Kingdom declares war on Germany, right after Germany invades Belgium.
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The Battle of Tannenberg starts.
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The unofficial Christmas truce is declared/
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The Battle of Gallipoli starts.
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The Battle of Verdun starts. Biggest and bloodiest battle.
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The Battle of the Somme starts. Tanks are first introduced into battle.
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The United States declares war on Germany.
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The Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian government.
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U.S. President Woodrow Wilson publishes his, "Fourteen Points to Peace".
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German flying ace, Baron Manfred von Richthofen a.k.a Red Baron, is shot down.
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The Treaty of Versailles officially ends World War I.
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Beginning of the Great Depression, Wall Street falls.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Germany invades France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
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Italy declares war on France, and Great Britain.
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France surrenders to Germany.
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The United States actually begins its first peacetime draft.
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill.
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The British ship, Hood, is sunk by Germany's Bismarck.
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The Bismarck is sunk.
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Atlantic Conference starts.
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The Japanese launches a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide since he knew he was going to be murdered soon.
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D-Day- Invasion of France
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Franklin D. Roosevelt dies from brain hemorrhage.
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The assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler fails.
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The United States drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
