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1 battle of the Marne
2 U.S.declares war on Germany
3 Russia invades Germany
4 Zimmermann Note
5 Battle of Verdun
6 Assassination in Sarajevo
7 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
8 Germany defeats Serbia
9 Meuse-Argonne offensive
10 Russian Revolution starts
11 Tsar NicholasII abdicates
12 sinking of the "Lusitania"
13 Germany invades Belgium
14 Battle of the Somme
15 Germany defeats Rumania
16 Wilson reelected in USA
17 Italy joins the Allies
18 Japan joins the Allies
19 Bulgaria joins the Central Powers
20 Austria sends ultimatum to Serbia
21 Bolsheviks under Lenin seize power
22 Armistice to end the war signed
23 Russia drops out of war
24 Germans win the battle of Tannenberg
25 Britain declares war on Germany

2007-01-30 15:52:11 · 4 answers · asked by lookadistraction 4 in Arts & Humanities History

4 answers

MAY 7th

On this day in history in 1915, The Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat.
The Lusitania was a British ocean liner built by John Brown and Company on the Clyde. She was travelling from New York to Liverpool with 1959 passengers and crew when she was torpedoed without warning, off the coast of Ireland, by the German submarine U-20 and sank within twenty minutes with the loss of 1195 lives.

The British accused the Germans of attacking an unarmed passenger vessel. The Germans claimed that The Lusitania was carrying munitions. This was probably true. Shells and rifle ammunition were imported from North America despite United States legal provisions against armaments being carried on civilian vessels.

The United States were indignant at the loss of 128 of their citizens in the incident. The Germans responded that they had given warning. German Embassy officials in New York had handed out leaflets on the dockside to passengers, stating that the Lusitania was a target.

A German metalworker struck several commemorative medals celebrating this alleged German triumph. In response, Selfridges of London produced alternative medals denouncing the German atrocity and had them distributed in aid of The British Red Cross.

The German Admiralty were obliged to suspend U-Boat activity due to the outrage of the American government. Later in 1917, when the Germans resumed U-Boat attacks, The United States joined The First World War by declaring war on Germany.

2007-01-31 08:54:53 · answer #1 · answered by Retired 7 · 0 0

Buy a copy of Liddell Hart's 'History of the First World War'.

2007-01-30 20:34:47 · answer #2 · answered by john b 5 · 0 0

I don't know the exact dates for all of them, and I am too lazy to check so this should provide you with most of the answers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ww1

and just search on wiki for other ones that are not in that article.

2007-01-30 16:55:31 · answer #3 · answered by pikachu is love. 5 · 0 0

they hapend first world war ovisly the year was 1915 the same year as the gollipolie campain witch took place in turky.

2007-01-30 16:50:43 · answer #4 · answered by james bond 1 · 0 1

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