Key events of WW1

Question 1

Crown Prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand assasination

Answer 1

June 28th 1914

Question 2

Austria declared war on Serbia

Answer 2

July 28th 1914 - August 3rd 1914

Question 3

Battle of Marne

Answer 3

September 6th 1914 - September 12th 1914

Question 4

Gallipoli Campaign

Answer 4

February 19th 1915 - January 9th 1916

Question 5

Verdun - The longest battle

Answer 5

February 21st 1916 - December 18th 1916

Question 6

Somme - The bloodiest battle

Answer 6

July 1st 1916 - November 18th 1916

Question 7

Revolution in Russia - Bolshevik Revolution

Answer 7

March 8th 1917 - June 16th 1923

Question 8

United States enters war

Answer 8

April 6th 1917

Question 9

French Soldiers Mutiny

Answer 9

May 3rd 1917

Question 10

The signing of Armistice

Answer 10

November 11th 1918

Question 11

Germany sinks HMS Lusitania

Answer 11

May 7th 1915

Question 12

The first battle of Ypres

Answer 12

October 19th 1914 - November 22nd 1914

Question 13

The second battle of Ypres

Answer 13

April 22nd 1915 - May 25th 1915

Question 14

Battle of Passchendaele / The third battle of Ypres

Answer 14

July 31st 1917 - November 10th 1917

Question 15

Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire

Answer 15

November 5th 1914

Question 16

German zeppelin raids

Answer 16

January 10th 1915

Question 17

Germany initiates unrestricted submarine warfare policy

Answer 17

February 4th 1915

Question 18

British and French troops land on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire

Answer 18

April 25th 1915

Question 19

Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering WW1 on the side of the Allies

Answer 19

May 23rd 1915

Question 20

Allied troops move through Mesopotamia to capture Baghdad from the Ottomans

Answer 20

September 28th 1915

Question 21

A combined force of Austro-Hungarians and Germans (and later Bulgarians) invade Serbia

Answer 21

October 6th 1915

Question 22

British Red Cross nurse, Edith Cavell, is arrested and executed in Brussels

Answer 22

October 7th 1915 - October 12th 1915

Question 23

Great Britain and France secretly sign the Sykes-Picot Agreement

Answer 23

May 16th 1916

Question 24

Battle of Jutland

Answer 24

May 31st 1916 - June 1st 1916

Question 25

Arab nationalists revolt against Ottoman rule in the “Great Arab Rising.”

Answer 25

June 5th 1916

Question 26

The U.S. cuts off diplomatic relations with Germany

Answer 26

February 3rd 1917

Question 27

British intelligence intercepts the Zimmermann Telegram

Answer 27

March 1st 1917

Question 28

Germany sinks the SS Aztec

Answer 28

April 1st 1917

Question 29

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson delivers a war message to Congress

Answer 29

April 2nd 1917

Question 30

General John J. Pershing selected as commander of the American Expeditionary Forces

Answer 30

May 25th 1917

Question 31

Congress passes the Espionage Act

Answer 31

June 15th 1917

Question 32

Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks assume complete control over the new Soviet Russian state

Answer 32

November 7th 1917

Question 33

The British capture Jerusalem from the Ottomans

Answer 33

December 9th 1917

Question 34

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points for peace

Answer 34

January 8th 1918

Question 35

Russia and Germany sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, officially removing Russia from World War I

Answer 35

March 3rd 1918

Question 36

Battle of Cantigny

Answer 36

May 28th 1918

Question 37

Bolsheviks murder the former czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his family

Answer 37

July 17th 1918

Question 38

Battle of Saint-Mihiel

Answer 38

September 12th 1918 - September 15th 1918

Question 39

Meuse-Argonne Offensive

Answer 39

September 26th 1918

Question 40

Battle of Vittorio Veneto

Answer 40

October 24th 1918 - November 3rd 1918

Question 41

German Kaiser Wilhelm II resigns and flees to Holland

Answer 41

November 9th 1918

Question 42

Allied troops move into Germany and begin occupation

Answer 42

December 1st 1918

Question 43

Allied nations propose constitution for the League of Nations

Answer 43

February 14th 1919

Question 44

Germany is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 44

June 28th 1919

Question 45

The Treaty of Sevres officially ends the war between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire

Answer 45

August 10th 1920