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Answer the following from the chart and your World War One Map.
You may also need a dictionary.
How long was it from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles?
When did the United States declare war on Germany?
When and where was the first gas attack?
When was the Armistice? Define Armistice.
When was the demonstration of the first tank? When was its first use in combat?
When was the first Zeppelin raid on London? What was a Zeppelin?
How long from Britain's entrance into the war until the introduction of conscription? Define conscription.
How long between the First and Second Battles of the Marne?
When did Italy declare war on Austria-Hungary? Why is this unusual?
When did the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) join the Central Powers?
On a separate paper, create a timeline including all SEVENTEEN references to Germany.
| Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand | 28 June 1914 |
| Austria-Hungary demands that Serbia arrest the leaders of the Black Hand | 23 July 1914 |
| Serbia appeals to Russia for help | 24 July 1914 |
| Serbia refuses to hand over leaders of the Black Hand group | 25 July 1914 |
| Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia | 28 July 1914 |
| Germany declares war on Russia | 1 August 1914 |
| Germany declares war on France | 3 August 1914 |
| Moltke orders the Schlieffen Plan to proceed | 4 August 1914 |
| German troops enter Belgium | 4 August 1914 |
| Great Britain declares war on Germany | 4 August 1914 |
| Lord Kitchener calls for 100,000 men to join British Army | 7 August 1914 |
| Big Bertha used against Liege Forts | 12 August 1914 |
| Austro-Hungarian troops invade Serbia | 12 August 1914 |
| French troops enter Lorraine | 14 August 1914 |
| British Expeditionary Force (BEF) arrives in France | 22 August 1914 |
| Battle of Mons begins | 23 August 1914 |
| French Army abandons Plan 17 | 24 August 1914 |
| Battle of Tannenberg begins | 26 August 1914 |
| Battle of Heligoland | 28 August, 1914 |
| War Propaganda Bureau Writers Conference | 2 September 1914 |
| Battle of the Marne begins | 6 September 1914 |
| French troops attack German Army at the River Aisne | 13 September 1914 |
| Battle of Albert | 25 September 1914 |
| Battle of Arras | 1 October 1914 |
| First German aircraft shot down by Allied plane | 5 October 1914 |
| Battle of Ypres | 15 October 1914 |
| Canadian troops arrive in Britain | 16 October 1914 |
| Ottoman Empire joins Central Powers | 29 October 1914 |
| Anglo-Indian invasion of Mesopotamia | 21 November 1914 |
| Farman MF-11 carries out first night bombing raid | 21 December 1914 |
| Christmas Truce on the Western Front | 25 December 1914 |
| South African forces occupy Swakopmund | 14 January 1915 |
| Battle of Dogger Bank | 24 January 1915 |
| BEF attacks at Neuve Chapelle | 10 March 1915 |
| Allied naval attack on the Dardanelles | 18 March 1915 |
| Roland Garros uses deflector plates to fire through propeller | 1 April 1915 |
| German gas attack at Ypres | 22 April 1915 |
| Allied landings at Gallipoli | 25 April 1915 |
| Sinking of the Lusitania | 7 May 1915 |
| Artois Offensive | 9 May 1915 |
| Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary | 23 May 1915 |
| Germany abandons Ypres offensive | 25 May 1915 |
| Asquith forms coalition government in Great Britain | 25 May 1915 |
| First Zeppelin raid on London | 31 May 1915 |
| Isonzo Offensive begins | 23 June 1915 |
| Suvla Bay Offensive at Gallipoli | 6 August 1915 |
| Grand Duke Nikolai sacked as Commander-in-Chief of Russian Army | 5 September 1915 |
| First tank demonstrated to British military leaders | 11 September 1915 |
| Anglo-French Offensive at Artois-Loos | 25 September 1915 |
| Allied troops land at Salonika | 5 October 1915 |
| Edith Cavell executed by Germans as a spy | 12 October 1915 |
| Sir Douglas Haig becomes new BEF commander | 19 December 1915 |
| Britain introduces conscription | 2 February 1916 |
| German Verdun Offensive | 21 February 1916 |
| Germany declares war on Portugal | 9 March 1916 |
| Battle of Jutland | 31 May 1916 |
| Russian Brusilov Offensive | 4 June 1916 |
| Lord Kitchener of Great Britain killed at sea | 5 June 1916 |
| Start of Anglo-French Somme Offensive | 1 July 1916 |
| Italian Gorizia Offensive | 9 August 1916 |
| Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff | 29 August 1916 |
| First use of British tanks at Flers-Courcelette | 15 September 1916 |
| French recapture Fort Douaumont at Verdun | 24 October 1916 |
| Somme Offensive ends | 18 November 1916 |
| Beatty replaces Jellicoe as Commander-in-Chief of British Grand Fleet | 29 November 1916 |
| Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister | 6 December 1916 |
| Nivelle becomes French Western Front Commander-in-Chief | 12 December 1916 |
| Zimmermann Telegram intercepted by Britain | 19 January 1917 |
| Battle of Gaza begins in Middle East | 26 March 1917 |
| United States declares war on Germany | 6 April 1917 |
| Start of Nivelle Offensive | 9 April 1917 |
| Start of Arras offensive | 9 April 1917 |
| Canadian Army captures Vimy Ridge | 12 April 1917 |
| 2nd Battle of the Aisne begins | 16 April 1917 |
| French tanks used in battle for the first time | 17 April 1917 |
| Petain becomes French Western Front Commander-in-Chief | 15 May 1917 |
| Maria Bochkareva forms the Russian Women's Battalion | 16 May 1917 |
| John Pershing given command of American Expeditionary Force (AEF) | 19 May 1917 |
| British attack at Messines | 7 June 1917 |
| United States troops arrive in France | 25 June 1917 |
| Greece declares war on the Central Powers | 29 June 1917 |
| King George V changes name to Windsor | 17 July 1917 |
| British Offensive at Passchendaele | 12 October 1917 |
| Italian Caporetto Offensive | 24 October 1917 |
| Sir Frederick Maude dies in Mesopotamia | 18 November 1917 |
| Massed tank attack by British at Cambrai | 20 November 1917 |
| Bolshevik government in Russia disbands Women's Battalion | 21 November 1917 |
| U.S. President Wilson announces 14 Points Peace Program | 8 January 1918 |
| Start of German Spring Offensive | 21 March 1918 |
| Foch appointed Allied Coordinator in France | 29 March 1918 |
| 3rd Battle of the Aisne begins | 27 May 1918 |
| Battle of Le Hamel | 4 July 1918 |
| 2nd Battle of the Marne | 15 July 1918 |
| German retreat at the Marne | 20 July 1918 |
| Amiens Offensive | 8 August 1918 |
| Allied breakthrough at Albert | 21 August 1918 |
| United States St. Mihiel Offensive | 12 September 1918 |
| Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins | 26 September 1918 |
| Canal du Nord Offensive | 27 September 1918 |
| Max von Baden appointed Chancellor of Germany | 3 October 1918 |
| Allied forces capture the Hindenburg Line | 5 October 1918 |
| Italian Vittorio Veneto Offensive | 23 October 1918 |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates | 9 November 1918 |
| Armistice | 11 November 1918 |
| Lloyd George wins British General Election | 14 December 1918 |
| Paris Peace Conference | 12 January 1919 |
| Treaty of Versailles signed | 28 June 1919 |