Date Event

1871 The armaments race begins

1871 Unification of Germany
1873 Start of the Alliance system
1881 The Tunisian Incident
1882 The Triple Alliance is formed
1898 Germany starts building its navy
1898 The Fashoda Incident
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1899 The 1st Disarmament conference

in Hague ends in failure
1905 Kaiser William II visits Morocco
1905-1906 The First Moroccan Crisis
1906 Britain builds the first
Dreadnought
1907 The 2nd Disarmament conference
in Hague ends in failure
1907 The Triple Entente is formed
1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-
Herzegovina
1908 The Bosnian Crisis
1911 France sends troops to Morocco
1911 Germany sends a gunboat to
Morocco
1911 The Second Moroccan Crisis
 1912 The Balkan League is formed
1912 The First Balkan War
1913 The Second Balkan War
June 28 1914 Franz Ferdinand is assassinated
July 23 1914 Austria-Hungary sends Serbia an
ultimatum
July 28 1914 The Austro-Serbian War begins/
WWI begins in Europe
July 29 1914 Russia mobilizes to support Serbia
Germany mobilizes as well
July 31 1914 Germany demands Russia to stop
mobilization
August 1 1914 Germany declares war on Russia,
France mobilizes
August 3 1914 Germany declares war on France,
Belgium is invaded
August 4 1914 Britain declares war on Germany
September 1914 Trench warfare begins
February1915 Unrestricted submarine warfare
begins (U.R.S.)
May 1915 The Lusitania is sunk by a German
sub
May 1916 The Battle of Jutland
November 1916 President Wilson starts his 2nd
term and successfully urged
Germany to stop U.R.S.
Feb-March 1917 Germany sends a telegram to
Mexico to fight against the US
April 1917 America joins the Allied Powers
March 1918 Russia withdraws from the war
March 1918 Trench warfare ends
November 1918 The Central Powers are defeated
and WW1 ends
January 1918 Wilson proposes the Fourteen
Points
1919 The Paris Peace Conference is held
1919-1929 USA enters the “Roaring 20’s”
1920 The League of Nations is formed
October 24,1929 The Wall Street Crash
1929-1933 The Great Depression
1939-1945 WW2