Order of WWI Events Eighth Grade

First

Tensions increase as nations compete for colonies in Africa

Second

The Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated by Serbian nationalists

Third

World War I begins

Fourth

The battle of the Marne takes place

Fifth

Italy refused to honor its alliance with Germany and joins the Allies

Sixth

Germany announced that it would sink all merchant vessels sailing to Allied ports

Seventh

Germans torpedoed the Lusitania

Eighth

The Zimmerman Telegram is intercepted

Ninth

Congress passed the Selective Service Act

Tenth

Russia withdraws from WWI because of the Bolshevik Revolution

Eleventh

The United States joins the Allies in fighting in WWI

twelveth

The Battle of Argonne Forest takes place

Thirteenth

German government appeal to Wilson for an armistice

Fourteenth

The armistice began

Fifteenth

World War I ends

Sixteenth

Congress passes the Sabotage Act

seventeenth

Wilson creates the Fourteen Points

eighteenth

The Treaty of Versailles is signed

nineteenth

The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles

twentieth

United States signed a peace treaty with each of the Central Powers