Key events of WW1 Flashcards
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Crown Prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand assasination
June 28th 1914
Austria declared war on Serbia
July 28th 1914 - August 3rd 1914
Battle of Marne
September 6th 1914 - September 12th 1914
Gallipoli Campaign
February 19th 1915 - January 9th 1916
Verdun - The longest battle
February 21st 1916 - December 18th 1916
Somme - The bloodiest battle
July 1st 1916 - November 18th 1916
Revolution in Russia - Bolshevik Revolution
March 8th 1917 - June 16th 1923
United States enters war
April 6th 1917
French Soldiers Mutiny
May 3rd 1917
The signing of Armistice
November 11th 1918
Germany sinks HMS Lusitania
May 7th 1915
The first battle of Ypres
October 19th 1914 - November 22nd 1914
The second battle of Ypres
April 22nd 1915 - May 25th 1915
Battle of Passchendaele / The third battle of Ypres
July 31st 1917 - November 10th 1917
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire
November 5th 1914
German zeppelin raids
January 10th 1915
Germany initiates unrestricted submarine warfare policy
February 4th 1915
British and French troops land on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire
April 25th 1915
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering WW1 on the side of the Allies
May 23rd 1915
Allied troops move through Mesopotamia to capture Baghdad from the Ottomans
September 28th 1915
A combined force of Austro-Hungarians and Germans (and later Bulgarians) invade Serbia
October 6th 1915
British Red Cross nurse, Edith Cavell, is arrested and executed in Brussels
October 7th 1915 - October 12th 1915
Great Britain and France secretly sign the Sykes-Picot Agreement
May 16th 1916
Battle of Jutland
May 31st 1916 - June 1st 1916
Arab nationalists revolt against Ottoman rule in the “Great Arab Rising.”
June 5th 1916
The U.S. cuts off diplomatic relations with Germany
February 3rd 1917
British intelligence intercepts the Zimmermann Telegram
March 1st 1917
Germany sinks the SS Aztec
April 1st 1917
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson delivers a war message to Congress
April 2nd 1917
General John J. Pershing selected as commander of the American Expeditionary Forces
May 25th 1917
Congress passes the Espionage Act
June 15th 1917
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks assume complete control over the new Soviet Russian state
November 7th 1917
The British capture Jerusalem from the Ottomans
December 9th 1917
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points for peace
January 8th 1918
Russia and Germany sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, officially removing Russia from World War I
March 3rd 1918
Battle of Cantigny
May 28th 1918
Bolsheviks murder the former czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his family
July 17th 1918
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
September 12th 1918 - September 15th 1918
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
September 26th 1918
Battle of Vittorio Veneto
October 24th 1918 - November 3rd 1918
German Kaiser Wilhelm II resigns and flees to Holland
November 9th 1918
Allied troops move into Germany and begin occupation
December 1st 1918
Allied nations propose constitution for the League of Nations
February 14th 1919
Germany is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles
June 28th 1919
The Treaty of Sevres officially ends the war between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire
August 10th 1920
