Elliott_WW1 Timeline by Britney-Ann Elliott https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2018-02-01 17:39:10 UTC 2018-02-09 17:34:03 UTC hello@padlet.com 1914 June 28 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227179455 Assassination in Sarajevo
1.Explain: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife was shot dead by a serbian in Sarajevo.
2.Significance: This event was widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I. ]]> 2018-02-01 17:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227179455 1914 June 28 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227180219 World War 1 begins
1.Explain: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers).
2.Significance: World war started after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914.]]> 2018-02-01 17:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227180219 1915 May 7 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227181181 The Lusitania Sunk
1.Explain: A  year after World War I (1914-18) erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the Lusitania.
2.Significance:Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. ]]> 2018-02-01 17:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227181181 1915 September 18 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227181657 Germany calls off unrestricted  Warfare
1.Explain: 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.
2.Significance: It is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink vessels such as freighters and tankers without warning, as opposed to attacks per prize rules.
]]> 2018-02-01 17:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227181657 1917 January 16 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227182515 Zimmerman Note
1.Explain: It was a telegram  from the German Foreign Office that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
2.Significance: The goal was to get Mexico to become an ally of Germany. Mexico and Japan denied any involvement with Germany. The United States declared war soon after.]]> 2018-02-01 17:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227182515 1917 February 1 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227182910 Germany resumes unrestricted Warfare
1.Explain: Germany broke its promise to the United States to stop attacking passenger ships. German leaders knew America entering the war would increase the strength of Allied Powers.
2.Significance: Because Germany broke their promise the United States declared war on them.]]> 2018-02-01 17:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227182910 1917 March 15 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227193082 First Russian Revolution
1.Explain: This involved the collapse of an empire under tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks.
2.Significance: It sparked the beginning of a new era in Russia that had effects on countries around the world.]]> 2018-02-01 18:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227193082 1917 April 6 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227193493 US declares war
1.Explain: Germany renewed its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare that it had abandoned in 1915 after the sinking of the Lusitania. All ships trading with Britain, including those of neutral countries such as the United States would be targets for their submarines and would be sunk without warning.
2.Significance: Wilson cited Germany's violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare]]> 2018-02-01 18:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227193493 1917 June 25 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227197302 US Troops land in France
1.Explain: Over one million American troops were stationed in France, though only half of them made it to the front lines.
2.Significance: When the war  ended on November 11, 1918, more than two million American soldiers had served on the battlefields of Western Europe, and more than 50,000 of these men had lost their lives. ]]> 2018-02-01 18:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227197302 1917 Novmeber 7 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227198179 October Revolution  occurs in Russia
1.Explain: Vladimir Lenin led his leftist revolutionaries in a revolt against the ineffective Provisional Government.
2.Significance: The Bolsheviks were formed .Known simply as Lenin. Ruthless and single-minded, Lenin decided that the conditions in Russia in 1917 were ripe for revolution.

]]> 2018-02-01 18:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227198179 1917 December 23 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227307216 Russia withdraws  from the war
1.Explain: Russia's withdrawal from World War one soon after the October Revolution of 1917. 
2.Significance: and the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard]]> 2018-02-01 22:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227307216 1918 January bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227307402 Wilson outlines the 14 points
1. 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 
2.Significance: The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress]]> 2018-02-01 22:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227307402 1918 November 11 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227307627 Armistice signed
1.Explain: It was an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany.
2.Significance:  The armistice was the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front.
]]> 2018-02-01 22:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227307627 1919 January 18 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227308941 Treaty of Versailles Conference  Opens
1.Explain: It was the meeting of the victorious Allied Powers following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.
2.Significance: The purpose of the meeting was to establish the terms of the peace after World War.
]]> 2018-02-01 22:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227308941 1920 January 19 bellio3623 https://padlet.com/bellio3623/m5kx9t5hzhsx/wish/227309133 First meeting of the League of Nation in London
1.Explain: The League of Nations was an international organization, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
2.Significance: The League of Nations was approved, however, Wilson presented the Treaty of Versailles. The League of Nations proceeded without the United States.The United States did join the League of nations.
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