Full World War One Timeline...IN 5 MINUTES!
*Correction: The date for 'British and American Troops Enter Germany' should read Dec 1, 1918 NOT 1919. My apologies.
World War I was a defining moment in 20th-century geopolitical history whose shockwaves can still be felt even today. The destructive conflict lead to the fall of four great imperial dynasties (Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey) and sparked the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia with the downfall of the Czar. This destabilization of European society laid the groundwork for World War II, a war that would eclipse even WW1 in scale, destruction and brutality.
World War One, also known as the 'Great War' and (at the time) the 'War To End All Wars', was an international conflict from 1914–18 that involved most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East and many others.
The war was a clash between the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey and the Allies: France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States. After more than four years the conflict ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The first world war was virtually unprecedented in the death and destruction it unleashed.
This video aims to present a brief but robust timeline of the war from its beginnings with the assanation of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the very end with the final, dramatic collapse of the Kaisers German Reich and the subsequent Allied Occupation of Germany that followed.
Sources:
Library of Congress - Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918 to 1919. A World At War: Timeline (1914 - 1921)
Britannica.com. Timeline of World War I.
World-War-1-Facts.com. World War 1 Timeline.
Historyonthenet.com. A Comprehensive World War One Timeline.
Music:
That Same Captain - Crypt of Insomnia