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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
On June 28, the couple went to the capital city of Sarajevo to inspect imperial troops stationed there. As they headed toward their destination, they narrowly escaped death when Serbian terrorists threw a bomb at their open-topped car. Then then went down the street some more where a 19 year shot and killed them. -
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Battle of Tannenberg
The Battle of Tannenberg was fought between Russia and Germany between the 26th and 30th of August 1914, the first month of World War I. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army and the suicide of its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov. -
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Battle of the Marne
The Battle of the Marne, also known as the Miracle of the Marne, was a World War I battle fought from 6–10 September 1914. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German armies in the west. -
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Battle of Gallipoli
The Gallipoli campaign was also known as the Battle of Gallipoli. It was an unsuccessful attempted by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War I. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes. -
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Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun was the largest and longest battle of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies. The battle took place on the hills north of Verdun sur Meuse in north-eastern France. -
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Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and French Empire against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the River Somme in France. -
Interception of the Zimmerman telegram
In the telegram, intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence , Zimmermann instructed the ambassador, Count Johann von Bernstorff, to offer significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter any future U.S-German conflict as a German ally. -
March Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution of 1917 involved the collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II. Also the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks. -
US joins ww1
In 1917, Germany, determined to win its war of attrition against the Allies, announced the resumption of unrestricted warfare in war-zone waters. Three days later, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and just hours after that the American liner Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat. -
November Russian Revolution
November 1917 Russia got the world’s first communist government. Lead by Lenin, communists took over the vital city of St Petrograd and removed the Provisional Government from power. -
signing of the Armistice
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had been agreed with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
The creation of the League of nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded on January 10, 1920, as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. -
creation of the USSR
The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR officially created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the Soviet Union. It legalized a union of several Soviet republics that had existed since 1919 and created a new centralized federal government where key functions were centralized in Moscow.
