[432], This figure could be paid in cash or in kind (coal, timber, chemical dyes, etc.). Below is a timeline of WW1 from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the event that sparked the war, up through the armistice (cease fire) agreed upon between the Allies and Germany in 1918. Graphic color photos, pictures and music, World War I British press photograph collection, Personal accounts of American World War I veterans, Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers, Deportations from East Prussia during World War I, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_War_I&oldid=980394875, Wars involving the states and peoples of Oceania, Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from July 2020, Articles lacking reliable references from June 2018, Articles with incomplete citations from July 2020, Articles with incomplete citations from September 2019, Wikipedia articles with citations needing edition from September 2019, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages, Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2018, Articles with disputed statements from November 2018, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2016, Articles lacking reliable references from May 2018, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2020, Articles containing Spanish-language text, Articles with limited geographic scope from June 2017, Pages with DOIs inactive as of 2020 August, Wikipedia articles with TDVİA identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Fall of all continental empires in Europe (including, Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East, No indemnities, except to compensate for severe war damage in Belgium and parts of France and of Serbia, Germany to pull out of Belgium and France, Germany's overseas colonies to be returned to Germany, A Supreme Court of arbitration to settle future disputes between nations, Abolish all retaliatory economic conflicts, No point in ordering reparations, because so much damage had been caused to all belligerents, This page was last edited on 26 September 2020, at 08:48. [346], Many pogroms accompanied the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Russian Civil War. [374], A number of socialist parties initially supported the war when it began in August 1914. They were slaughtered in stupid battles planned by stupid generals. They were initially used for reconnaissance and ground attack. The Allies fell back and held. U.S. forces, some 4,000 troops, are victorious in their first major action of the war at the, The final phase of the great German spring push, the. The initial offensive was so successful that Kaiser Wilhelm II declared 24 March a national holiday.

His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918.

[25] Ultimately, as a result of the war, the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian Empires ceased to exist, and numerous new states were created from their remains. However, he also repeatedly warned that the United States would not tolerate unrestricted submarine warfare, in violation of international law. However, because the weapon was to be directed against the enemy, none of us were overly concerned at all.