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On the 28th of June 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinard and his wife were assassinated during a goodwill trip to the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovnia.
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US President Woodrow Wilson made public the US policy of neutrality, warning US citizens not to take sides in the ongoing war.
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Japan comes to war alongside Britain as the two have been allies since 1902.
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Great Britain suffers casualties after its first air raid from Germany when two German Zeppelins sropped bombs on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn on the eastern coast of England.
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On the 25th of April 1915, the Australian troops landed at Gallipoli.
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Starting three days after the initial landing, but due to poor communication and leadership the battle quickley broke down, with 14,000 Allied troops participating and suffering around 3000 casualies.
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The Allied attepts a second advancment but once again they are defeated.
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An armistice was called at gallipoli in order to bury the fallen.
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Yet another Allied failure.
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The British triumph at The Battle of Gully Ravine.
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The battle was part of a diversionary attack to draw Ottoman attention away from the main assaults against Sari Bair.
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Allies land at Suvla Bay, a phase of the August Offensive. Part of the Britishes final attepmt to break the stalemate of The battle of Gallipoli.
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Last and unsuccsesful attepmt by The British to gain The Gallipoli Peninsula.
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Orignially meant to be a small scale attack, but instead was upsized to a futile and bloody series of attacks that in the end only gained a small patch of land known as "The Vineyard"
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The August Offensive was a major attpmt made by the Allied Forces to break the stalemate since their landing on April 25th 1915. It consisted of 6 seperate battles and two differnt phases througout the month of August.
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Two regiments of the Australians 3rd Light House Brigade staged a useless and futile attack on the Ottoman trenches, resulting in nearly 400 Australians killed.
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Scimitar Hill, a phase of the August Offensive.
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The last major assault of The August Offensive. Its date was set to coincide with the Attack on Scimitar Hill. If they had succeded in the Battle, it would have allowed the Anzac and Sulva landings to be securely linked.
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Defeated by the Ottoman Empire, the Australian and British troops had been ordered to retreat from Gallipoli, but this was not as easy as it may sound. The preperations of evacuation had started in novemeber to make themselves appear as if they were mearly preparing for the winter. The last of the troops however were finally evacuated just after the start of January in the dead of night, the last Australian and British troops caught their last glimpses of Gallipoli.
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Great Britain issues conscription, meaning that it was compulsary to enlist into the armed forces.
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On the date of April 6th 1917, the USA had officially declared war on the German Empire, under guidance of former President Woodrow Wilson.
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On the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, Germany had signed an Armsitice to agree to the end of conflict with the Triple Entente.
