Timeline

• 1879-Dual alliance(Germany+Austria-Hungary)
• 1872:Triple alliance(Italy+Germany+Austra-Hungary)
• 1892:Franco-Russian alliance
• 1897:Formulation of the Schleiffen plan begins
• 1902:Anglo-Japanese alliance
• 1904:Entente cordiale(Britain+France)
• 1905-6:First Moroccan crisis
• 1906:British announcement of the dreadnought
• 1907:Triple entente(Russia+France+Germany)
• May 1911:Second Moroccan crisis
• 1908-9:Balkan crisis
• September 1911:Black hand is formed
• 1912-13:Balkan wars
• June 1914:Assasination of Franz Ferdinand
• July 1914:Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia(First countries at war in WW1)
• August 1914:Germany and the triple entente join WW1
• September 1914:Stalemate at battle of Marne starts 'race to the sea'
• November 1914:British declare North sea war zone
• December 1914:British coastal towns are bombed by German ships
• February 1915:Gallipoli campaign begins
• April 1915:Poison gas is first used and Italy joins the conflict on Britain and France's side
• May 1915:German U-boat sinks Lusitania
• December 1915:General Sir Douglas Haig takes control of Britsih forces on the Western front and the Gallipoli campaign ends
• February 1916:Battle of verdun begins
• May 1916:Battle of Jutland
• July 1916:Battle of the Somme begins
• September 1916:Tanks first used in battle during the Somme offensive
• February 1917: German submarines restart series of U-boat attacks on allied shipping
• March 1917:Fisrt of two Russian revolutions take place
• April 1917:USA joins conflict
• July 1917:Battle of Paschendale/third battle of Ypres
• November 1917:Second Russsian revolution
• March 1918:Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Russia and Germany ending russia's involovemnet in the war and Ludendorf's Spring offensive begins
• April 1918:French army leader, Ferdinand Foch, beomes supreme allied commander
• August 1918:Hundred days counter-attack
• October 1918:Kiel mutiny
• Novemeber 1918:Armistice