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Archduke Assassanation
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevc on July 28th, 1914. The assassin backed out originally, but by chance the parade had changed route and passed him. He saw his oppuritny and shot the duke and his wife. This event was what sparked the beginning of WW1. -
WW1 Begins
Germany wanted to get to France but went through Belgium to get there. This caused Britian to get involded because Belgium signed a treaty with Britian that stated that Britian had to provide protection to Belgium if they needed it for the exchange for peace. This alliance started the beginning of WW1. -
Dogs in WW1
Dogs were very useful in the long miles of trenches during WW1. It is estimated that Germany used 30,000 dogs, Britian, France, and Belgium had over 20,000 dogs. There were many different types of war dogs some were scentry dogs, scout dogs, explosive dogs, and even mascot dogs. -
Gas
The gas used in WW1 was a very effective, deadly, dirty weapon. The gas physiologically scarred the soliders for years after the war. Different gases would leave different sideaffects of inhaling and being exposed to it. Both sides of the war used gas so eventually gas masks were distributed to every solider. -
The Youngest Solider
Sidney Lewis was the youngest solider ever to enlist he was only 12 years old. 5 months after his 12th birthday he ran away from home to enlist. He was in the East Survey Regiment but eventually his mother sent a birth certificate to the war office and he was sent home within weeks. -
Trench Foot
Trench foot is caused by your feet being in cold, wet, insanitary conditions for hours with no relief. This was such a problem because the soliders couldnt change their socks and dry out their feet for days. But by the end of 1915 British soliders were required to have 3 pairs of socks with them and to change them twice a day to try to prevent trench foot from happening. -
U.S. Enters War
Tensions were running high when 128 Americans were killed when a passanger liner was sunk by Germany.
Eventually, Congress authorized a declaration of war against Germany on April 6th, 1917. The U.S. was in the Allied powers with Britian and France. -
African Americans in the War
After the U.S. declared war on Germany in April, America passed the draft. A week after the declaration of war the enlistment office had to stop accepting African Americans because all the quotas were met. By the end of the war African Americans were in every branch in the war including infary, signal, medical, and engineering. -
Roy Crowdy Avery Joins the War
September 1917, orders came to Roy to report to the 69th regiment armory in New York City. Roy states that the routine of the army in the beginning was very boring and uneventful. Roy was looking for anything to do to keep him busy during the long days. -
Taking a Course and the Reseach Project
Roy contracted his brother that worked at the Rockfeller Institiute, in New York who told him about a course on bacteriology of war wounds. Roy deccided to take the 6 week long course, which he passed. After he completed the difficult course, the institiue gave him a research project that he could drop at any time. -
A New Discovery
Roy got started on his research project that led to creating a experiment, to find any differentiation of the three known pneumococci at the time. He went to lunch, and whem he came back he checked the tubes that were being used for experiment and found pneumococci. Roy imedicantly went to contact his brother to show him the evidence that he found. -
What he Discovered
After showing his brother, Roy discovered a way to diagnose if a patient had one of the 3 types of Pneumococci without the use of a mouse. He discovered if you took sputum from the patient that you could find out hours faster it became known as the "Avery Squeakless Mouse Determination of Pnemococci from Spectum". Quickly afer discovering this Roys brother took his findings and took the credit for the discovery. -
Roy in the Field
During the war Roy would frequently be pulled out of the central place to go to an emergency in the battlefield. He would be pulled because he was a bacteriologists and they were a rariety in the war. When he went to the front and to "no mans land" Roy's job was to tell the physications when they could sew up soliders wounds so they the physician wouldnt sew a wound up that was bacteria infested. -
Russia Exits from the War
On March 3rd, 1918 Russia exited the war offically to focus on government problems. The war became very unpopular in Russia due to the amout of dead soliders, and their country going bankrupt from it.This cwas a huge problem for the Allied Powers. It caused them to face 900,000 additional German troops on the western front. Germans also had access to all of the Russian equipment and deadly weapons they left behind. -
The Treaty of Versailles
On June 6th, 1919 the signing of the Treaty of Versallies ended WW1. The major parts of the treaty was the reassignment of German boundaries and signed liability to every country for reperations from the war. It basically punished Germany, threfore the German government signed under protest.
