Timeline of World War I and the Russian Revolution 1914-1920
Cultural events
Social events
Political events
Economic events
1890's: Trans-Siberian railroad system completed
1898: Fashoda crisis between France and Britain
1903: First airplane flight
1905: Bloody Sunday revolution in Russia kills many peaceful protesters in St. Petersburg, triggered the start of a revolution
1905: Russian Revolution
1914: Yugoslavian nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
1914-1918: World War I
1914: Trench Warfare war strategy finds its origins in the front
1914: Free-Market Capitalism temporarily abandoned
1914-1930s: Women gain freedoms in the work place as a result of male family members leaving for the war
1915: Submarine warfare introduced by Germany
1917: Russian economy breaks down under pressure from WWI and revolts within the country
1917: Russian Bread Riots
1917: 750,000 Germans starve to death as a result of heavy rationing
1917: February Revolution occurs in Russia, Petrograd Soviet competes with Provisional Government; Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Bolsheviks gain complete power of the government in November
1918: Idea of National self-determination introduced by Woodrow Wilson and his fourteen points
1919: Treaty of Versaille peace settlement ends WWI
1919: War Guilt Clause; Germany has to pay 33 billion dollars in war reparations
1918: 20 million Europeans die as a result of worldwide influenza epidemic
1920's: War veterans and their families struggle as the governments have trouble financially supporting their benefits
Social events
Political events
Economic events
1890's: Trans-Siberian railroad system completed
1898: Fashoda crisis between France and Britain
1903: First airplane flight
1905: Bloody Sunday revolution in Russia kills many peaceful protesters in St. Petersburg, triggered the start of a revolution
1905: Russian Revolution
1914: Yugoslavian nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
1914-1918: World War I
1914: Trench Warfare war strategy finds its origins in the front
1914: Free-Market Capitalism temporarily abandoned
1914-1930s: Women gain freedoms in the work place as a result of male family members leaving for the war
1915: Submarine warfare introduced by Germany
1917: Russian economy breaks down under pressure from WWI and revolts within the country
1917: Russian Bread Riots
1917: 750,000 Germans starve to death as a result of heavy rationing
1917: February Revolution occurs in Russia, Petrograd Soviet competes with Provisional Government; Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Bolsheviks gain complete power of the government in November
1918: Idea of National self-determination introduced by Woodrow Wilson and his fourteen points
1919: Treaty of Versaille peace settlement ends WWI
1919: War Guilt Clause; Germany has to pay 33 billion dollars in war reparations
1918: 20 million Europeans die as a result of worldwide influenza epidemic
1920's: War veterans and their families struggle as the governments have trouble financially supporting their benefits