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| 306430192 | World War 1: causes, events and effects By: Ashlee Remington | Picture 1: This shows men standing in trenches. Because the advancement in technology like the tank, the army was forced to use new methods to defend themselves. | 0 | |
| 306430193 | Pre War: June and July 1914 | Picture 2: Heir to the Austria-Hungary throne and wife are assassinated by a Serbian Nationalist. Germany promises to support Austria against Serbia. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and Russia. Austria-Hungarian troops invade Serbia. | 1 | |
| 306430194 | Beginning of the War: August 1914 | 1st of August is the official outbreak of World War I Germany declares war on Russia Picture 4: Germany invades Luxembourg on the 2nd then declares war on France Germany tries to go through Belgium to get to France but violates a treaty so Britain declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary | 2 | |
| 306430195 | August 1914 | The British forces assist the French and Belgians Picture 7:This is a German depiction of the hand to hand combat used. Picture 9: The Canadian Parliament creates a camp at Valcartier to give basic training to new recruits on the 19th Austria-Hungary launches an invasion of Russian Poland. Picture 10: Japan declares war on Germany and attacks German colony of Tsingtau in China on the 23rd | 3 | |
| 306452332 | September 1914 | Picture 13: First Battle of Masurian Lakes on the 9th and Russia loses. Picture 14:Troops starts to construct trenches across the entire length of the western front. | 4 | |
| 307449579 | October, November and December 1914 | Picture 16:First Battle of Ypres begins on the 14th of October Turkey enters the war on the side of the Central Powers on the 29 of October Picture 18: On the 8th of December the Battle of the Falkland Islands between British and German Naval units begins. An unofficial Christmas truce is declared by soldiers along the Western Front on the 25th of December. | 5 | |
| 307449580 | January and February 1915 | Picture 19: First German zeppelin air raid on England on the 19th. Picture 21: British naval units bombard Turkish forts in the Dardenelles on the 19th. | 6 | |
| 307454662 | March and April 1915 | On the 1st of April an American citizen die as the British liner Falaba and becomes the first passenger ship to be sunk by U-boats. Captain George Van Horn Moseley of U.S. War College Division suggests a plan for universal military training Poison gas is used for the first time by Germans in an attack on the Canadians. | 7 | |
| 307470671 | May 1915 | Picture 24: The British liner Lusitania is sunk by a U-Boat with the loss of 1,198 civilians, including 128 American lives, creating a US-German diplomatic crisis on the 7th. Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary on the 23rd. | 8 | |
| 307470672 | June, July and August 1915 | President Wilson directs a defense program to be drafted on the 1st of July. On the 19th, two Americans die in sinking of ship Arabic, off the coast Ireland by a U-boat. The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun publis that General Staff are planning to send a force of 1 million soldiers overseas on the 21st. The War College Division denies this. Picture 28: The American General Staff then devotes much of the year to preparing the "Statement of a Proper Military Policy for the United States" | 9 | |
| 308475317 | September-December 1915 | British forces use gas in battle near Loos, but shifting winds cause 60,000 British deaths on the 15th Austro-German-Bulgarian forces invade Serbia, forcing the Serbian army from the country Picture 31: Henry Ford's peace ship, Oskar II, begins its voyage to Europe on the 4th of November. | 10 | |
| 308477437 | January and February 1916 | President Wilson launches a nationwide campaign to generate support for Preparedness and the Continental Army on the 27th Picture 32: The Battle of Verdun begins as the Germans launch a massive attack against Verdun in what will become the longest battle of the war on the 21st | 11 | |
| 308477438 | March and April 1916 | Picture 35: French passenger ship, Sussex is torpedoed on the 24th. Picture 36: On the 24th The Easter rebellion starts in Ireland. British forces in Mesopotamia begin advance on Baghdad. | 12 | |
| 308477439 | May and June 1916 | Picture 38: On the 31st Battle of Jutland begins between British and German naval forces with no clear winner but it was the biggest navel battle in history. The National Defense Act is passed in the US | 13 | |
| 308477440 | July-October 1916 | Picture 41: On the 30th The Black Tom Island munitions plant is destroyed by an explosion. It is suspected that it was German sabotage Romania enters the war on the Allies side in August On the 31st of August Germany suspends U-boat attacks Picture 42:On the 15th of September tanks introduced for the first time on the Somme battlefield by the British. | 14 | |
| 309149215 | November and December 1916 | Woodrow Wilson is re-elected in the USA with a campaign slogan of "He kept us out of the war" on the 7th of November Battle of the Somme ends on the 18th On the 28th, the First German airplane (as opposed to zeppelin) air-raid is conducted on Britain | 15 | |
| 309149216 | January 1917 | A telegram to Mexico urging her entry into war against the United States is discovered and translated by the British on the 19th | 16 | |
| 309149217 | February 1917 | On the 3rd the US cuts diplomatic ties with Germany Picture 43: On the 24th the Sinking of the Laconia Telegram is passed to the US by Britain, saying alleged German proposal of an alliance with Mexico against the US | 17 | |
| 309149218 | March 1917 | On the 1st Telegram is released to press by US State Department and the Armed Ship Bill is passed by Congress Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates as a consequence of Russian Revolution on the 15th On the 20th US President Woodrow Wilson's war cabinet votes unanimously in favor of declaring war on Germany On the 29th War College Division issues a report: Calling for a large army | 18 | |
| 309149219 | April 1917 | United States comes out of neutrality and declares war on Germany, thus entering the First World War on the 6th On the 13th Canadian troops take Vimy Ridge and the surrounding area in one of Canada's finest battles of the war The German submarine campaign exacts its heaviest damage of war sinking 881,027 gross tons | 19 | |
| 310049453 | May and June 1917 | Picture 45: The British explode 19 large mines under the Messines Ridge on the 7th of June On the 26th The first U.S. troops begin arriving in France, they are called the1st Division Greece enters the war on the side of the Allies on the 27th Battle of Messines. | 20 | |
| 310049455 | November and December 1917 | On the 7th of November the Bolshevik overthrow the Kerensky's government and install of a Communist one under Lenin On the 3rd of December German-Russian armistice is signed by the new Russian government, represented by Leon Trotsky The United States declares war on Austro-Hungary on the 7th Jerusalem captured from the Turks by the British on the 9th On the 22nd Russia opens separate peace negotiations with Germany at Brest-Litovsk | 21 | |
| 310049456 | January-March 1918 | On the 3rd of March a separate peace treaty is signed by Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey) at Brest-Litovsk | 22 | |
| 310049457 | April-June 1918 | Picture 50: Zeebrugge Raid German U-boats appear in US waters for first time on the 25th Picture 52: U.S. forces are victorious in their first major action, Battle of Cantiny on the 28th | 23 | |
| 310049458 | July and August 1918 | On the 6th of July President Woodrow Wilson agrees to US intervention in Siberia Former Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, and children, are murdered by the Bolsheviks on the 16th | 24 | |
| 310049460 | October and November 1918 | On the 3rd of October Germany and Austria send peace notes to US President Woodrow Wilson requesting an armistice Picture 56: On the 11th Armistice day as fighting ceases at 11am - World War I ends Central Powers are forced to annul the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. | 25 | |
| 310086775 | January and Febuary 1919 | Picture 57: 15th the revolt by Communists in Berlin is crushed. German socialist rebels Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg are murdered. On the 25th Peace conference accepts principle of a League of Nations. 28th the campaign against the League of Nations starts in the US. The Allies secretly agree to military intervention in the Russian Civil War. | 26 | |
| 310086776 | March- May 1919 | 13th Admiral Kolchak begins his offensive against Bolsheviks in Russian Civil War. 14th Wilson returns to Paris after a month's absence. 3rd Wilson becomes sick with influenza. 23rd Wilson appeals directly to the Italians in an effort to gain their support for his views on the peace settlement. Picture 58: 28th The League of Nations is founded. | 27 | |
| 310086777 | June- September 1919 | Picture 59: 28th Five years after the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian Nationalist in Sarejevo, the Treaty of Versailles is signed between the Allies and Germany in Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, officially ending the Great War. The treaty was harsh on Germany by forcing it to accept full responsibility for the the war and pay reparations, give up territories and reduce the army size to just 100,000 men. 25th President Woodrow Wilson's campaign for the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations ends as he collapses during whistle-stop tour of the country. | 28 |
