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These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war.

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The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.

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Wilson outlines the 14 points

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This ended the fighting on the Western front and allowed Germany to focus most of their resources on their Eastern front fighting France and Great Britain

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Russia signaled her withdrawal from World War One soon after the October Revolution of 1917, and the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard.

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Russia withdraws from war

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This eventually became the reason for Russia to withdraw from the war

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On 7 November 1917, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin led his leftist revolutionaries in a revolt against the ineffective Provisional Government

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October Revolution occurs in Russia

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The Allies gained a huge bump in manpower and also gained an upper hand against Germany and the Axis

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By June 1917, only 14,000 American soldiers had arrived in France, and the AEF had only a minor participation at the front through late October 1917, but by May 1918 over one million American troops were stationed in France, though only half of them made it to the front lines.

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U.S. troops land in France

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Before the U.S. joined the war, it was essentially a bloody stalemate. The U.S. joining was just enough for the Allies to win the war

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After years of being provoked by Germany to join the war, the U.S. joined the war April 6, 1917

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U.S. joins the war

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Russia became too weak to fight in WWI and would eventually pull out of the war

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The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies.

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First Russian Revolution

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Germany would begin to sink other ships like the Lusitania, and continue to kill

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On January 31, 1917, Germany announces the renewal of unlimited submarine warfare in the Atlantic, and German torpedo-armed submarines prepare to attack any and all ships, including civilian passenger carriers, said to be sited in war-zone waters.

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Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare

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This angered Americans and became another leading motivation for America joining the war in 1917

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The Zimmerman Note was a diplomatic message intercepted by The United States between Germany and Mexico that Germany was persuading Mexico to form an alliance with Germany and regain lost territory from the U.S.

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Zimmerman Note

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This was almost like a temporary armistice until they resumed unrestricted submarine warfare.

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Unrestricted submarine warfare was first introduced in World War I in early 1915, when Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone, in which all merchant ships, including those from neutral countries, would be attacked by the German navy.

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Germany calls off unrestricted submarine warfare

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Because of the large American presence on board at the time of the sinking, this became a leading motivation for America joining in WWI

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The Lusitania was a British cruise liner that was sunk by German U-Boats off the shore of Ireland carrying around 100 American passengers

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Lusitania Sinking

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The significance of WWI is way more than people give it credit, even playing part in the beginning of WWII

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After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, World War 1 started

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World War I begins

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian national apart of the Black Hand organization that advocated for Serbian independence.

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This was the single moment that sparked WWI, and Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia shortly after his assassination

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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand