World War 1 Events?! NEED HELP!?

1910: Halley's comet. China abolishes slavery. Thomas Edison demonstrates "talkie" movies. In Seattle, Washington women win vote. Aviator Charles Hamilton flies first heavier-than-air flight here. Union Pacific arrives.

1911: Roald Amundsen first to South Pole. In Seattle, Port of Seattle created. Broadway High grad Arthur Freed opens music shop, later becomes Hollywood producer of "Singin' in the Rain" in 1940s.

1912: Woodrow Wilson elected president. Titanic sinks. Geologist Aldred Wegener proposes continental-drift theory. In Seattle, bill posters organize, halibut fishermen strike, miners locked out. Grace Presbyterian Church founded, joining Mount Zion Baptist Church as centers for black community.

1913: Panama Canal opens. Sixteenth and 17th constitutional amendments create income tax and Federal Reserve system. In Seattle, NAACP chapter formed. First auto ferry, Leschi, tested. Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring'' has a tumultuous premiere in Paris.

1914: World War I begins -- Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife Sophie are assassinated; Austria declares war on Serbia, Germany on Russia and France, Britain on Germany. Black South Africans protest white land grab. Nine million Japanese starve. In Seattle, Nellie Cornish, Boston-trained music teacher, founds Cornish School. Ahavath Ahim (Jewish) congregation founded. West Seattle's Youngstown steel-mill strike. Panama Canal officially opened. Congress sets up Federal Trade Commission, passes Clayton Antitrust Act. U.S. Marines occupy Veracruz, Mexico, intervening in civil war to protect American interests.

1915: Ocean liner Lusitania sunk by German submarine. D.W. Griffith's film "Birth of a Nation" opens. Somerset Maugham's book "Of Human Bondage" published. In Seattle, Herbert Munter builds first airplane on Harbor Island. Coliseum, first American grand movie palace, opens. Longshoremen, ship workers, road workers strike. Second Battle of Ypres. U.S. banks lend $500 million to France and Britain. Genocide of estimated 600,000 to 1 million Armenians by Turkish soldiers. Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

1916: Wilson re-elected. Easter Sunday Irish patriot uprising. Author Jack London dies. Montana's Jeannette Rankin, formerly active in Seattle social services, becomes the first elected U.S. congresswoman. Boeing launches Aero Products Co., later The Boeing Co. Congress expands armed forces. Battle of Verdun. Battle of the Somme. Tom Mooney arrested for San Francisco bombing (pardoned in 1939). Pershing fails in raid into Mexico in quest of rebel Pancho Villa. Mexican Pancho Villa loses at Chihuahua. U.S. buys Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million. President Woodrow Wilson re-elected with “he kept us out of war” slogan. “Black Tom” explosion at munitions dock in Jersey City, N.J., $40,000,000 damages; traced to German saboteurs. Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic. Easter Rebellion in Ireland put down by British troops.

1917: In Seattle, Lake Washington Ship Canal opens. In addition to other strikes, building trades strike construction jobs to protest lumber from mills with 10 hour shifts. Feds shut down Storyville, New Orleans' Jazz/music-filled red light district. First U.S. combat troops in France as U.S. declares war on Germany (April 6). Third Battle of Ypres. Russian Revolution of 1917—climax of long unrest under czars. February Revolution—Nicholas II forced to abdicate, liberal government created. Kerensky becomes prime minister and forms provisional government (July). In October Revolution, Bolsheviks seize power in armed coup d'état led by Lenin and Trotsky. Kerensky flees. Balfour Declaration promises Jewish homeland in Palestine. U.S. declares war on Austria-Hungary (Dec. 7). Armistice between new Russian Bolshevik government and Germans (Dec. 15). Sigmund Freud's Introduction to Psychoanalysis.

1918: War ends in armistice. Russian revolutionaries execute the former czar and his family. The Bolsheviks Revolution becomes a Russian Civil War begins between Reds (Bolsheviks) and Whites (anti-Bolsheviks); Reds win in 1920. Allied troops (U.S., British, French) intervene (March); leave in 1919. Second Battle of the Marne (July–Aug.) German Kaiser abdicates (Nov.); hostilities cease on the Western Front. Japanese hold Vladivostok until 1922. Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S. alone, 500,000 perish. In Seattle, railway terminals consolidate, ending travel chaos.

1919: Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata killed. First atoms "split." In Seattle, Boeing and pilot Eddie Hubbard deliver first international air mail to Vancouver, B.C. City acquires streetcar system. Winnipeg General Strike.

MILITARISM: The idea that the countries involved had built huge militaries, and that many leaders wanted to use those militaries. IMPERIALISM: Competition bet wen the countries to control other lands (outside of Europe). NATIONALISM: The idea that each nationality (or, in some cases, religion or ethnicity) was superior to others, and deserved to rule (or to be independent). ALLIANCE SYSTEM: Agreements between countries to come to each others aid in the event of war. The major alliances were: TRIPLE ALLIANCE (Germany, Austria Hungary, and Italy) v. TRIPLE ENTENTE (France, Russia, and Great Britain). These four created factors a ticking bomb that was just waiting for something to set it off. Once the fuse was lit, the war would be huge. And the fuse was lit on June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist.

what i know is that when archduke franz ferdinand was assassinated a war was started