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Copyright 2014 by R. Kent Rasmussen
All rights reserved
First edition
Published by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
814 North Franklin Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610
ISBN 978-1-61374-556-4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rasmussen, R. Kent.
World War I for kids : a history with 21 activities / R. Kent Rasmussen. First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience: Ages 9 and up.
ISBN 978-1-61374-556-4 (trade paper)
1. World War, 1914-1918Juvenile literature. 2. World War, 1914-1918Study and teachingActivity programs. 3. Creative activities and seat workJuvenile literature. I. Title.
D522.7R37 2014
940.4dc23
2013037624
Cover and interior design: Monica Baziuk
Cover images: Library of Congress: Uncle Sam, mounted solier, Wilhelm II, Women! propaganda poster, and Luisitania poster. National Archives and Records: Children refugess and men leaving Camp Dix. National Geographic magazine (1917, v. 31, p. 379): Men in trenches. iStockphoto: Biplane breckeni; German helmet jsolie. Shutterstock: poppy flower Chris Howey Authors collection: Over There sheet music.
Interior illustrations: Jim Spence
Printed in the United States of America
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To Bailey, Jackson, Zane, Miranda, Cosette, Damon, Griffin, and Maggie: may you and your generation never see another war.
INDEX
| June 28 | Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Serbia |
| July 6 | Germany agrees to support Austria-Hungary against Serbia |
| July 28 | Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia; Russia begins to mobilize for war |
| August 1-4 | Germany declares war on Russia, France, and Belgium |
| August 2-4 | Germany invades Poland, Luxembourg, France, and Belgium; Great Britain declares war on Germany |
| August 7 | British troops begin landing in France; French troops invade Alsace |
| August 10-13 | France and Britain declare war on Austria-Hungary |
| August 19 | United States formally declares its neutrality |
| August 21 | Battle of the Ardennes |
| August 23 | Japan declares war on Germany |
| August 26-29 | Germans stop Russian advance into East Prussia at Battle of Tannenberg |
| August 28 | British Royal Navy attacks German positions in Battle of Heligoland, also known as the Battle of the Bight |
| September 5 | Britain, France, and Russia sign agreement not to seek separate peace |
| September 6-11 | Allies stop German advance on Paris in First Battle of the Marne; trench warfare will soon begin |
| November 1 | German naval squadron defeats British squadron off Chilean coast in the Battle of Coronel |
| November 5-6 | Britain and France declare war on Turkey |
| November 11 | German drive to the North Sea halted in First Battle of Ypres |
| December 8 | German squadron defeated at Falkland Islands |
| December 25 | British and German troops fraternize during a Christmas truce near Ypres in Belgium |
| February 1 | Germany announces beginning of submarine warfare |
| April-May | International Congress of Women at the Hague, Netherlands, seeks ways to end the war |
| April 25-January 26, 1916 | Allied campaign at Gallipoli |
| April 22 | Germans introduce chlorine gas at Second Battle of Ypres |
| May 7 | British passenger liner Lusitania is sunk by German submarine |
| May 23-24 | Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary |
| August 21 | Italy declares war on Turkey |
| September 4-5 | Tsar Nicholas II assumes command of all Russian forces |
| September 18 | Germany stops submarine warfare |
| February 21-December 18 | Battle of Verdun |
| March 2 | Germany resumes submarine warfare |
| April 23 | Easter Rebellion in Ireland |
| May 17 | British Parliament enacts military conscription |
| May 31 | Naval Battle of Jutland |
| July-November | First Battle of the Somme |
| August 26 | Italy declares war on Germany |
| August 31 | Germany again stops submarine warfare |
| September 6 | Central Powers form unitary supreme command |
| September 15 | Britain introduces tanks at the Somme |
| October 15 | Germany resumes submarine warfare |
| November 7 | Wilson is re-elected US president on an antiwar platform |
| November 21 | Emperor Francis Joseph dies |
| January 9 | Germany again resumes unrestricted submarine warfare |
| March 11-15 | Russian Revolution begins after Tsar Nicholas abdicates |
| April 6 | United States declares war on Germany; other Western Hemisphere nations follow |
| May 15 | Ptain assumes overall command of French army |
| May 26 | First US troops arrive in France |
| June 6 | Sailors in German navy begin to revolt |
| July-November | Battle of Passchendale |
| November 8 | Lenin and Trotsky form Bolshevik government in Russia |
| December | British troops occupy Jerusalem |
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