World War I for Kids: A History with 21 Activities
August 10 13 France and Britain declare war on Aus tria Hungary August 19 United States formally declares its neu trality August 21 Battle of the Ardennes August 23 Japan declares war on Germany August 26 29 Germans stop Russian advance into East Prussia at Battle of Tannenberg August 28 British Royal Navy attacks German posi tions in Battle of Heligoland also known as the Battle of the Bight September 5 Britain France and Russia sign agree ment not to seek separate peace September 6 Allies stop German advance on Paris in 11 Battle of the Marne trench warfare First will soon begin November 1 German naval squadron defeats British squadron off Chilean coast in the Battle of Coronel November 5 Britain and France declare war on Turkey November 11 German drive to the North Sea halted in First Battle of Ypres December 8 German squadron defeated at Falkland Islands December 25 British and German troops fraternize during a Christmas truce near Ypres in Belgium
1915 A February 1 Germany announces beginning of sub marine warfare April May International Congress of Women at the Hague Netherlands seeks ways to end the war April 25 Jan Allied campaign at Gallipoli uary 26 1916 April 22 Germans introduce chlorine gas at Sec ond Battle of Ypres May 7 British passenger liner Lusitania is sunk by German submarine May 23 24 Italy declares war on Austria Hungary August 21 Italy declares war on Turkey September 4 Tsar Nicholas II assumes command of all 5 Russian forces September Germany stops submarine warfare 18 1916 A
February 21 Battle of Verdun December 18 March 2 Germany resumes submarine warfare April 23 Easter Rebellion in Ireland May 17 British Parliament enacts military con scription May 31 Naval Battle of Jutland July First Battle of the Somme November August 26 Italy declares war on Germany August 31 Germany again stops submarine warfare September 6 Central Powers form unitary supreme command September Britain introduces tanks at the Somme 15 October 15 Germany resumes submarine warfare November 7 Wilson is re elected US president on an antiwar platform November 21 Emperor Francis Joseph dies 1917 January 9 Germany again resumes unrestricted submarine warfare March 11 15 Russian Revolution begins after Tsar Nicholas abdicates April 6 United States declares war on Germany other Western Hemisphere nations fol low
May 15 Pétain assumes overall command of French army May 26 First US troops arrive in France June 6 Sailors in German navy begin to revolt July Battle of Passchendale November November 8 Lenin and Trotsky form Bolshevik gov ernment in Russia December British troops occupy Jerusalem December Russia negotiates peace settlement with 22 March 3 Central Powers 1918 1918 a January 8 Wilson presents Fourteen Points to US Congress July 8 Tsar Nicholas II and his family are mur dered November 7 German revolution begins in Munich November 9 German emperor Wilhelm II abdicates November Armistice ends fighting in Europe 11 November German forces in East Africa surrender 14 ending combat 1919
