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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie

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June 28, 1914: The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie

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June 28, 1914: The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie

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The assasination of archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, by a Serbian nationalist, is often mentioned as the event that started the Great War. Though this is undeniably true, there were a lot more factors that ultimately lead to the outbreak of this world-wide conflict, which I will touch upon in the next few entries.

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January 18, 1871: Unification of Germany

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January 18, 1871: Unification of Germany

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One reason that contributed to the circumstances that made WWl happen is the unification of Germany. After Germany became a country, orchestrated by Otto von Bismarck, it wanted to become a powerful nation, quickly. This was not necessarily what von Bismarck wanted, as he was more conservative, but there was a nationalistic hunger for dominance, that buzzed in the newly unified land.

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June 15, 1888: Wilhelm ll Becomes Emperor of Germany

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June 15, 1888: Wilhelm ll Becomes Emperor of Germany

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Wilhelm ll became emperor of Germany in 1888 and he and Otto von Bismarck did not see eye to eye. Von Bismarck was not obiedent enough, according to Wilhelm, so he got fired in 1890 and got replaced by someone more docile, which meant that Wilhelm could execute his wishes more easily and what he wanted, was to expand his power.

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May 6, 1910: King George V Comes To The Throne

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May 6, 1910: King George V Comes To The Throne

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The First World War was basically a war fought between cousins, with Wilhelm ll, George V and Nicholas ll all being descendents of Queen Victoria. Some say that if she would have still been alive, the war would never have happened, though this is a bit too hopeful as Victoria was indeed, very powerful, but not so that she could have stopped a war from happening.

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July 28, 1914: Official Start of The War

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July 28, 1914: Official Start of The War

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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, which officially starts the war. After that all the other countries that become involved declare war to each other over the course of a couple of months and Europe gets divided into the Triple Entente: France, Britain, Russia, and the Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy.

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September 10, 1914: Start of The Trenches

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September 10, 1914: Start of The Trenches

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After the Germans lost the battle of Marne against the French, they retreated and started to dig trenches and position themselves in them. This was the beginning of the notorious trench warfare that we all know about today.

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April 22, 1915: First Use of Chemical Weapons

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April 22, 1915: First Use of Chemical Weapons

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At the Second Battle of Ypres the German army used chlorine gas for the first time, which started the modern era of chemical warfare. These chemical weapons could do damage on a level that was never seen before. Both sides used massive amounts over the course of the war causing enormous numbers of casualties.

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The Battle of Verdun spanned about ten months and took many lives. Entire French villages were wiped from the map and there still remain over 10 milion shells in the soil around Verdun.

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Verdun is a Human Slaughterhouse | Apocalypse: WWI

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The first day of the First Battle of the Somme was the bloodiest day in the history of the British army, with nearly 20,000 casualties killed in action. At the end of this battle, about four and a half months later, the combined casualties of both sides counted to more than 1,000,000.

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March 15, 1917: Tsar Nicholas ll Abdicates

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March 15, 1917: Tsar Nicholas ll Abdicates

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Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the throne after a week of riots in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. The Russian Revolution saw the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty and, ultimately, the rise to power of Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

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April 6, 1917: The United States declares war on Germany

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April 6, 1917: The United States declares war on Germany

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The United States, led by Woodrow Wilson, declares war on Germany and decide to join the allies. This is the point in the war where the tables start turning and the allies start winning.

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November 20, 1917: First Large-Scale Use of Tanks, in Cambrai, France

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November 20, 1917: First Large-Scale Use of Tanks, in Cambrai, France

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The wide-scale use of tanks is an important moment, because these were highly advanced, for the time, and hughly destructive weapons that could do a lot of damage at once. This was something new and made it modern warfare, which neither side had really dealt with before.

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Tanks of WWI: Renault FT, French Schneider CA1 and More | War Archives

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November 11, 1918: Armistice, which ends the War

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November 11, 1918: Armistice, which ends the War

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At 11 am on 11 November 1918 a ceasefire came into effect and the end of the Great War was finally there.
Germany and the Allies conclude an armistice based largely on Wilson’s Fourteen Points.

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The Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, France. It outlined the conditions of peace between Germany and the Allies. Some people say that it's “one of the most serious acts of political unwisdom for which our statesmen have ever been responsible.” because it contributed to German economic and political instability that allowed for the formation of the National Socialists just a year later. So it laid the grounds for the Second World War.