Timeline Flashcards
(111 cards)
0
Q
July 23, 1914
A
Austria-Hungary gives its ultimatum to Serbia
1
Q
What happened on June 28, 1914
A
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assasinated
2
Q
July 25, 1914
A
Serbia mobilizes and Russia declares a period preparatory to war
3
Q
July 30, 1914
A
Russia and Austro-Hungary order general mobilization
4
Q
August 1, 1914
A
Germany mobilizes and declares war on Russia. France mobilizes, Germany and the Ottoman Empire sign a secret alliance treaty
5
Q
August 3
A
Germany declares war on France. Britain orders general mobilization
6
Q
August 4, 1914
A
Germany declares war on Belgium and invades prompting Britain to declare war on Germany. Wilson declares US neutriality
7
Q
August 5
A
Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia
8
Q
August 6
A
Serbia declares war on Germany
9
Q
August 10
A
France declares war on Austria Hungary. Hungary invades Serbia
10
Q
August 12, 1914
A
Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary
11
Q
August 16, 1914
A
Russian troops invade East Prussia
12
Q
August 20, 1916
A
The German Army occupies Brussels
13
Q
August 22, 1914
A
Hungary declares war on Belgium
14
Q
August 23, 1914
A
Japan declares war on Germany
15
Q
August 23, 1914
A
Austria-Hungary invades Russian Poland
16
Q
August 28, 1914
A
The Russians are defeated at Tanneburg
17
Q
September 4-10
A
The Battle of the Marne
18
Q
September 15, 1914
A
The Race to the Sea begins
19
Q
September 17, 1914
A
Austro-German forces attack western Poland, Austro-Hungarian attempt at invading Serbia fails
20
Q
October 6, 1914
A
Belgian troops abandon Antwerp to the Germans
21
Q
October 19 1914
A
The First Battle Of Ypres
22
Q
October 29, 1914
A
Turkey enters teh war
23
Q
November 1, 1914
A
Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
24
November 5, 1914
Hungary invades Serbia
25
November 22
The First Battle of Ypres ends the Race to the Sea
26
December 15, 1914
The French and British launch a general offensive all along the Western Front
27
December 21, 1914
The first German air raid on Britain begins
28
January 15, 1914
Japan issues twenty one demands on China an ultimatum that sought Japan's regional ascendancy over China
29
January 19, 19144
First German zeppellin attack on Britain
30
January 31, 1914
First German use of poison gas at Bolimow on the Eastern Front
31
February 4, 1915
German U-Boat attacks on Allied shipping an dGermany declares a blockade of Britain
32
February 22, 1915
Russia suffers heavy losses at the Second Battle of Masurian Lakes
33
March 1, 1915
The first British passenger liner is sunk by a U-boat
34
March 18, 1915
The British-French naval task force fails to force open the Dardanelles
35
April 22, 1915
The Second Battle of Ypres begins; the first German use of poison gas on the Western Front
36
April 25, 1915
British forces land on Gallipoli
37
April 26
France, Russia, Italy and Britain conclude seccret Treaty of London
38
May 7, 1915
The Lusitania is sunk
39
May 23, 1915
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
40
August 5, 1915
German forces occupy Warsaw
41
August 6, 1915
British forces land in Gallipoli
42
September 5, 1915
Tsar Nicholas II takes command of the Russian armies
43
September 21, 1915
The Battle of Loos, a major British offensive begins
44
October 6, 1915
Austro-Hungarian and German forces invae Serbia, expelling the Serbian army from the country
45
October 15, 1915
Britain declares war on Bulgaria
46
October 14, 1915
Bulgaria and Serbia declae war on each other
47
December 17, 1915
Sir Douglas Haig replaces Sir John French as commander of the B.E.F.
48
January 8, 1916
The British complete the evacuation of Gallipoli ending in an Ottoman victory
49
January 27, 1916
Conscription is introduced in Britain
50
February 27, 1916
The Germans open an offensive at Verdun
51
April 24, 1916
The Easter Rebellion starts in Ireland
52
May 4, 1916
Germany renounces its submarine policy
53
May 5, 1916
Beginning of Arab revolt aginst the Ottoman Empire
54
May 19, 1916
Britain and France conclude the Sykes-Picot Agreement defining areas of control for the two nations in the Middle East
55
May 31, 1916
Battle of Jutland, the biggest naval battle in history
56
June 4, 1916
Russian Brusilov Offensive in Carpathia nearly knock Hungary out of the war
57
July 1, 1916
Britian and France begin the Battle of the Somme
58
August 27, 1916
Romania declares war on Austria
59
August 28, 1916
Italy declares war on Germany
60
August 29, 1916
Hindenburg replaces Falkenhayn as chief of the German General Staff
61
August 31, 1916
Germany suspends submarine assaults
62
September 1, 1916
Bulgaria declares war on Romania
63
September 15, 1916
Tanks are introduced for the first time on the Somme battlefield by the British
64
October 15, 1916
Germany resumes U-boat attacks
65
October 24, 1916
The French launch a counter-offensive at Verdun
66
November 9, 1916
US President Wilson secures reelection
67
November 18, 1916
The Battle of the Somme ends
68
November 21, 1916
Franz Josef dies
69
November 28, 1916
The first German ariplane air raid on Britain
70
November 299, 1916
The US proclaims its occupation of Santa Domingo
71
December 5, 1916
David Lloyd George replaces Herbert Henry Asquith as British Prime Minister
72
December 12, 1916
Joseph Joffre is replaced by Robert Nivelle and Germany issues a peace note suggesting a compromise
73
Februay 1, 1916
Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
74
February 3, 1917
The US ends diplomatic relations with Germany
75
February 23, 1917
German forces begin a withdrawel to strong positions on the Hindenburg Line
76
March 1, 1917
The Zimmermann Telegram is made public, detailing a German proposal of an alliance with Mexico against the US
77
March 8, 1917
The Russian Revolution begins in Petrograd
78
March 15, 1917
Tsar Nicholas II abdicates
79
April 6, 1917
The US declares war on Germany
80
April 9, 1917
Canadian success at the Battle of the Vimy Ridge
81
April 16, 1917
Lenin arrives in Russia, Chemin des Dames starts
82
May y15, 1917
Nivelle is replaced by Philippe Petain as French Commander in Chief
83
June 15, 1917
The US Espionage Act is pressed
84
June 25, 1917
The first American troops land in France
85
June 27, 1917
Greece enters the war on the side of the allies
86
July 1 1917
The Russian offensive begins
87
July 6, 1917
British Army Officer TE Lawrence and Arabs capture Aquaba
88
Jul 16, 1917
The Third Battle of Ypres begins
89
July 19, 1917
Kerensky's offensive fails marking the last Russian initiative of the war
90
July 31, 1917
The Battle of Passchendale
91
November 7, 1917
The Bolsheviks seize power in Petrograd and announce Russia's intention to leave the war
92
December 7, 1917
US declares war on Austria Hungary
93
December 22, 1917
Russia opens separate pace negotiations with Germany
94
January 8, 1918
US President Woodrow Wilson makes hi 14 speech to Congress
95
March 3, 1918
The Russians accept German peace termss at Brest-Litovsk
96
March 21, 1918
Germany launches spring offensives
97
May 25, 1918
German U-boats appear in US waters for the first time
98
July 15, 1918
The final phase of the great German spring push, the Second Battle of the Marne
99
July 16, 1918
Fromer Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and children are murdered by the Bolsheviks
100
July 18, 1918
The Allies counterattack against German forces, seizing initiaitive
101
August 3, 1918
Allied intervention begins at Valdiostok
102
August 8, 1918
The British launch Amiens offensive
103
August 21, 1918
The Germans begin withdrawel to the Hindenburg Line
104
September 29, 1918
Bulgaria signs an armistice
105
October 30, 1918
Turkey concludes an armistice with the Allies
106
November 3, 1918
The German fleet mutinies at Kiel. Trieste falls to the Allies and Hungary surrenders
107
November 11, 1918
Armistice day
108
January 5, 1919
Communist revolt in erlin
109
January 18, 1919
Start of peace negotiations in Paris
110
May 7-June 28, 1919
Treaty of Versailles drafted and signed
