WWI - Timeline
- Post 1914
- The situation in Europe
- 1914
- June 28: Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
- The Great War breaks out
- August 23: Germany invades France
- The British Blockade
- 1915
- The "Lusitania" was sunk by a German U-boat
- April: Italy joins the war
- War in the trenches
- London attacked from the air by German Zeppelins
- 1916
- Battle of Verdun
- Battle of Jutland
- Battle of the Somme
- 1917
- Germany's unrestricted u-boat warfare
- The USA joins the war
- Russia leavs the War
- 1918
- Germany's last offensive
- The Battle of the Argonne Forest
- The First World War ends
- Treaty of Versailles
The First World War ends
After the Battle of the Argonne Forest it went downward for the central powers. A revolution in Austria-Hungary made them give up the war, and the Ottoman Turks also surrendered. Seeing all their allies give up made the people in Berlin to rise in a rebellion on November 9 to force the German emperor to step down. Germany singed an armistice that ended the war at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. The Great War was now over.