Resources
- [] World War I Timeline - Library of Congres(https://www.loc.gov/collections/stars-and-stripes/articles-and-essays/a-world-at-war/timeline-1914-1921/)
- 📕 Textbook page 2-3: full 19th century timeline
How WWI Began
==start date: 28 June 1916==
- 28 June 1914: 👤 Gavrilo Princip shoots 👤 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria
- 28 July 1914: 🇦🇹 Austria-Hungary declares war on 🇷🇸 Serbia
- 2-7 August 1914: Chaos. Everyone invades everyone.
- 🇩🇪 Germany invades 🇱🇺 Luxemborg and 🇧🇪 Belgium.
- 🇫🇷 France invades Alsace
- 🇬🇧 British forces arrive in France
- 10 August 1914: 🇦🇹 Austria-Hungary invades 🇷🇺 Russia
How WWI Ended
- with 3.01 Peace Treaties – specifically the 1919 Treaty of Versailles
Christmas Truce of 1914
- soldiers made their own unofficial cease-fire
Warfare
- trench warfare
- many countries were land-locked
- “trench foot” → usually amputated
- disease was rampant; a lot of men died in the trenches
- animals were used
- horses
- dogs
- tasked to pull weapon trolleys
- can sniff out alive humans in bunkers
- bears
- they were fitted for gas masks
Later
- 🇺🇸 USA joined in 1917 because 👤 Wilson Woodrow wanted peace