WWIWWI

By: Tanner Jones

Aug. 1 Sep.Aug. 1 Aug. Sep. Oct. 29Jun. 28 Dec. 25

Battle of Lemberg begins.

Official outbreak of World War I. Germany declares war on Russia.

Turkey enters the war on the side of the Central Powers.

An unofficial Christmas truce is declared by soldiers along the Western Front.

TIMELINE of 1914

Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated by a Serbian Nationalist in Sarejevo.

Russia invades East Prussia.

Pointy hats!

Aug. 1 Sep.Feb. 4 Mar. 11 Aug. 30 Oct. 29Jan. 19 Oct.

Timeline of 1915First German zeppelin air raid on England.

Germany declares a submarine blockade of Great Britain. Any ship coming to England is a target.

Britain announces a blockade of all German ports.

Responding to American demands, Germany stops sinking ships without warning.

British forces use gas in battle near Loos, but shifting winds cause 60,000 British casualties.

Austro-German-Bulgarian forces invade Serbia, expelling the Serbian army from the country

BOOM!

Timeline of 1916

Aug. 1 Sep.May 31 Jun. 1 Jul. 1 Sep. 15Feb. 21 Nov. 7

The Battle of Verdun begins as the Germans launch a massive attack against Verdun in what will become the longest battle of the war..

Battle of Jutland begins between British and German naval forces.

Having been the biggest naval battle in history, the battle of Jutland ends without a clear victor.

Start of the Battle of the Somme, with the British military suffering its greatest number of casualties in a single day, 60,000.

Tanks introduced for the first time on the Somme battlefield by the British.

Woodrow Wilson is re-elected in the USA with a campaign slogan of "He kept us out of the war".

Claustrophobia!

Timeline of 1917

Aug. 1 Sep.Apr. 6 Jun. 15 Jun. 27 Nov. 20Feb. 3 Dec. 7

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US severs diplomatic ties with Germany.

United States comes out of neutrality and declares war on Germany, thus entering WWI.

The US passes the Espionage Act.

Greece enters the war on the side of the Allies.

Battle of Cambrai begins with a surprise tank attack by the British.

The United States declares war on Austro-Hungary..

The War Ends

Timeline of 1918.

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America after the war…