WORLD WAR 1

ASSASSINATION

• Killed Franz Ferdinand
• His wife
• Killed by Gauilo Princip
• June 28 1914

DECLARING WAR

• Central powers
• Astro-Hungarian empire, Germany, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
• Allied powers
• Serbia, Russia, France, United Kingdom
• They joined together from August 1- 6, 1914

SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA

• The British had blocked German ports
• Germans created U-boats
• Sunk every British ship
• Sunk Cruise ship holding 128 Americans
• May 7 1915

THE TELLEGRAM

• Sent from Germany
• Tried to have Mexico join the war
• Intercepted by the British
• January 19,1917

DECLARING WAR

• America declares war on Germany
• Joins with the allied powers
• April 6,1917

THE DRAFT

• America passes the draft
• June 5, 1917 men ages 21-31
• June 5, 1918 men 21
• September 12, 1928 men ages 18-45

STARTS FIGHTING

• The first American shot
• Trenches in France
• October 23, 1917

CALL FOR PEACE

• Windrow Willson calls for peace
• Sussex pledge
• Germany refuses to listen
• January 8, 1918

ENDING THE WAR

• The fighting stops
• The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
• Signs armistice at Compiegne, France
• November 11, 1918

IT IS FINISHED

• The treaty of Versailles
• Officially ends the war
• June 28, 1919