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Allies
By 1907 there were two major defense alliances in Europe. The Triple Entente, later known as the Allies, consisted of France, Britain, and Russia. -
Central Powers
an empire of mostly Middle Eastern lands controlled by the Turks—were later known as the Central Powers. -
1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to
the Austrian throne, visited the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. As
the royal entourage drove through the city, Serbian nationalist
Gavrilo Princip stepped from the crowd and shot the
Archduke and his wife Sophie. Princip was a member of the
Black Hand, an organization promoting Serbian nationalism. -
Schlieffen Plan
This plan called for a holding action against Russia, combined with a quick drive through Belgium to Paris; after France had fallen, the
two German armies would defeat Russia. -
Battle of the Somme
the British suffered 60,000 casualties the first day alone. Final casualties totaled about 1.2 million, yet only about seven miles of ground changed hands. -
Trench warfare
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. The most famous use of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I. -
Germany blockades the North Sea
It blockaded the German cast to prevent weapons and other military supplies from getting through. However, the British expanded the definition of contraband to include food. They also extended the blockade to neutral ports and mined the entire North Sea. -
Sinking of British liner 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 of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Royal Navy blockaded Germany. -
Sinking of British liner Arabic
Sinking of the Arabic. In August 1915, the British passenger liner Arabic was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland. -
Sinking of French passenger liner Sussex
After the LBSCR came to a co-operation agreement with the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l'État Français, she transferred to their fleet under a French flag. -
Zimmermann note
The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note) was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany. -
Bolshevik Revolution
It is ending centuries of imperial rule and setting in motion political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. -
Selective Service Act of 1917
The Selective Service Act or Selective Draft Act (Pub.L. 65–12, 40 Stat. 76, enacted May 18, 1917) authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people -
369th Infantry Regiment
It was an infantry regiment of the United States Army National Guard during World War I and World War II. The Regiment consisted mainly of African Americans. -
Convoy System
The convoy system, which can be defined as a group of merchant vessels sailing together, with or without naval escort, for mutual security and protection, has a much longer history than sometimes suggested -
Shell shock, trench foot, and trench mouth
A case of trench feet suffered by an unidentified soldier. Feet suffered gravely in the water-logged trenches, as tight boots, wet conditions and cold caused swelling and pain. -
Conscientious objector
A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service' -
Austria Hungary surrenders to the Allies
October 1918 witnessed the collapse of the German and Austro-Hungarian armies, both greatly affected by war-weariness and starvation. -
Establishment of the German Republic
The western sectors, controlled by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, were merged on 23 May 1949 to form the Federal Republic of Germany -
War Industries Board
The War Industries Board (WIB) was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies. -
National War Labor Board
President Franklin D. Roosevelt reinstates Woodrow Wilson's National War Labor Board (NWLB) in an attempt to forestall labor-management conflict during World War II. -
Food Administration
During the United States participation in World War I the U. S. Food Administration was the responsible agency for the administration of the U.S. army overseas and allies' food reserves. -
Racing money for war
War bonds are debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war. -
Committee on Public Information
The Committee on Public Information, also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. -
Anti-German sentiment in America
Anti-German Sentiment. During World War I, the United States and its allies were fighting against Germany and its allies in Europe. As a result, anti-German sentiment developed in Ohio and across the nation during 1917 and 1918. -
Espionage and Sedition Acts
The law was extended on May 16, 1918, by the Sedition Act of 1918, actually a set of amendments to the Espionage Act. -
Eugene V. Debs arrest
Debs was noted for his oratory, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a term of 10 years. -
Emma Goldman
She was an anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century. -
Big Bill Haywood and the IWW
William Dudley Haywood , better known as "Big Bill" Haywood, was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World -
Victor Berger
A socialist congressman from Wisconsin, because of his antiwar views. Columbia University fired a distinguished psychologist because he opposed the war. -
Agreements made in the Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de 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. -
Reparations and the War Guild Clause
was a statement that Germany was responsible for beginning World War I.The article was seen as a concession to the Germans by the negotiators. It was bitterly resented, however, by virtually all Germans who did not believe they were responsible for the outbreak of the war. -
Wilson's "Peace without victory speech"
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson addressed the Senate on 22 January 1917 - a little more than two months before the U.S. entered the war against Germany - and appealed for a settlement of the conflict in Europe on the basis of 'peace without victory'. -
American Expeditionary Force and General John Pershing
The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) consisted of the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe under the command of General John J. Pershing in 1917 to help fight World War I. -
Second Battle of the Marne
The last major German offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. The attack failed when an Allied counterattack by French and American forces, including several hundred tanks, overwhelmed the Germans on their right flank, inflicting severe casualties. -
Cease-fire and armistice
A ceasefire (or truce), also called cease fire, is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions -
Wilson's Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.
