WORLD WAR I

ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA

• June 28,1914
• Gavrilo Princip shoots Franz Ferninand and his wife in Sarajevo.
• Goal of the assassination was to break off southern provinces and form one large one.

GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON FRANCE

• August 3,2013
• After declaring war on Russia, to have a two front war with Russia & France.

PRESIDENT WILSON ANNOUNCES THE UNITED STATES' NEUTRALITY

• August 19,1914
• Woodrow Wilson announces America's neutrality to prevent war
• with or in the United States.

UNITED KINGDOM CALLS NORTH SEA A MILITARY AREA

• November 3,1914
• From preventing Germany of advancing in the war,
• The UK made a blockade of goods that go in and
• out of Germany.

GERMANY DECLARES A WAR ZONE AROUND GREAT BRITAIN

• February 4,1915
• Germany establishes a submarine blockade
• around Great Britian, any ship was seen as a hazard.

RMS LUSITANIA SINKING

• May 7,1916
• German U-boats sink the Lusitania on
• it's voyage from New York to Great Britain.
• This event triggered the American entrance
• into the war.

THE BATTLE OF VERDUN

• February 21,1916
• Longest and bloodiest battle of
• World War I.

GERMANY SEND THE ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM

• January 19,1917
• Germany sending a message to Mexico
• asking them to join the Central Powers
• but decoded by British Intelligence.

PRESIDENT WILSON PROPOSES FOURTEEN POINTS

• January 8,1918
• Wilson proposes points to Congress and leaders in Paris that
• would establish peace in Europe.
• Many leaders do not agree.

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

• June 28,1919
• Germany acknowledges fault in the war
• and is required to pay reparations.
• The war ends.