Timeline of World War One

Question	Answer
1914 28th June	Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated by Princip, a Serbian terrorist
1914 28th July	The Austrian Government Declares war on Serbia
1914 1st August	Germany declares war on Russia
1314 3rd August	Germany declares war on France and poured troops into Belgium as per the Schlieffen Plan
1914 4th August	Britain declares war on Germany for invading neutral Belgium
1914 August	The Russians suffer a massive defeat at the hands of the germans at Tannenberg
1914 13th August	Japan declares war on Germany through her alliance with Great Britain, signed in 1902
1914 September	The Russians suffer a massive defeat at the hands of the Germans at the Masurian Lakes
1914 29th October	Turkey enters the war on the side of the central powers
1913 2nd November	Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 5th November	Britain and France declare war on turkey
1914 Autumn/Winter	The German army in France is eventually halted at the River Marne
1914 Autumn/Winter	The BEF (British Army) briefly holds up the German advance at Mons
1914 Autumn/Winter	The British lose a huge number of men at the first battle of Ypres
1914 Autumn/Winter	By Christmas both sides have dug themselves into the trenches on the western front
1914 December	The first Zeppelins appear over the English coast
1915 7th May	Sinking of the US passenger ship 'Lusitania' by U-Boats almost brings the USA into the war
1915 23rd May	Italy enters the war on the side of the Allies
1915 2nd April	Poison gas used for the first time (by the Germans)
1915 April-August	Allies attempt unsuccessfully to relieve pressure on the Russians at the Dardanelles
1915 February	Winston Churchill resigns as First Lord of the Admiralty and serves on the Western Front
1916 April	Rumania joined the war on the side of the Allies, but is promptly defeated by the Germans
1916 31st May	Battle of Jutland - the only truly large scale naval battle of the war (result indecisive)
1916 28th November	The first German air raid on London
1916 December	Lloyd George becomes Prime minister of the wartime coalition
1916 21st February - November	Germans attack Verdun to 'bleed the French dry'. Massive casualties on both sides
1916 1st July - November	Battle of the Somme. 60,000 British casualties (20,000 of whom died) on the first day
1917 February	Tsar Nicholas of Russia is overthrown and a provisional government takes his place
1917 March	Lloyd George appoints the French General Nivelle as supreme war commander over Haig's head
1917 July - November	British attack Germans at Passchendale (3rd battle of Ypres); result inconclusive
1917 Lloyd George appoints	Lloyd George appoints Churchill as Minister of Munitions
1917	German adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare: a million tonnes of shipping is sunk in the first month.
1917 6th April	USA declares war on Germany after American ships are sunk by U-boats
1917 October	Communists seize control of Russia, promising to end war
1917 November	Battle of Cambrai: First large scale tank battle of the war; result inconclusive
1917 December	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: The Russians are forced into a humiliating peace with Germany
1918 April	The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy Air Service are merged to for the Royal Air Force
1918 Mid October	The Allies had taken almost all of German occupied France and part of Belgium
1918 30th October	Turkey surrenders to the Allies giving them control of the Dardanelles (Black Sea Straits)
1918 9th NOvember	Kaiser Wilhelm II Abdicated
1918 11AM, 11th November	In the french town of Redonthes, the Armistice is signed, bringing the war to an end

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