Hist 143
Europe and the Modern World Hist 143
Europe and the Modern World
The
Outbreak and Course of World War I
Basically, this sheet
gives a chronology relating to World War I.
1893-4--Franco-Russian
Alliance.
1903--Entente
cordiale
1907--Triple Entente
28 June
1914--Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
4 Aug. 1914--Germans
invade Belgium, opening the war.
Oct. 1914--End of
the
war of movement; beginning of stalemate war.
1915--Struggle for
breakthrough
Feb. 1916--Verdun
beginning
July 1916--Somme
beginning
Mar. 1917--First
Russian
Revolution
1917--Passchendaele
opens in late summer
Nov. 1917--October
Revolution
Mar.
1918--Ludendorff
Offensive
11 Nov.
1918--Armistice
Jan.
1919--Peacemakers
gather
June
1919--Versailles
Treaty