Austria-Hungary takes the lands of Herzegovina and Bosnia from Ottoman Turkey, Bulgaria wins independence due to weakened Turkish states.
Austria blames Serbia for assassination and demands that it give up its independence. Serbia refuses.
Russia mobilizes troops to help its ally Serbia.
Russia refuses, Germany declares war.
Russia refuses. Germany declares war on Russia. France mobilizes troops to help Russia, who is their ally.
Germany declares war on France and invades the neutral country Belgium to get to France.
Britain, allied with Belgium, demands that German cease their invasion. Germany refuses, Britain declares war on Germany.
Turkey joins the war on the side of the Germans and Austria-Hungarians-- now called the Central Powers.
Bulgaria enters the war on the side of the Central Powers.
Romania enters the war and is nearly immediately defeated.
America enters the war, Allies.
America, upset by the sinking of American ships by the German u-boats, finally enters WWI on the side of the Allies.
"Both Members of This Club"
"Little Painting with Yellow (Improvisation)"
"Portrait of a German Officer"
"I Wants to Be (A Actor Lady)"
Preludes, Book I, No. 2 "Voiles"
Pierrot Lunaire, Op.21, No.8 "Nacht"
The Rite of Spring, "Introduction" and "Omens of Spring"
Romanian Christmas Carols (Sz. 57 / BB 67), "First Series"
German poet Frida Schanz(1859-1944) had her poem "Silence" printed in a newspaper on August 17, 1914.
"How it Feels to be Forcibly Fed"
"How it Feels to be Forcibly Fed" was written by Djuna Barnes(1892-1982) and published in The World Magazine on September 6, 1914.
French writer and journalist Colette (1873-1954) wrote about her experiences while she visited her husband on the front.
"In 1915, American writer Mary Rinehart (1876-1958) was sent to Belgium by the Saturday Evening Post to report on the war."
"The Soldier" is a poem by Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), a British poet who died of blood poisoning.
Rebecca West (1892-1983) visited and wrote about the Scottish Dornock Munitions Factory in 1916.
Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) wrote the poem "The Dancers" subtitled "(During a Great Battle, 1916)".
"The Trenches (Heard in the Ranks)"
"The Trenches (Heard in the Ranks)" is a short poem by British poet Robert Graves (1895-1985). The date is a guess.
"Dulce et Decorum Est" was written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen, but was published posthumously.
Katharine Mansfield writes "The Fly"
"British author Katharine Mansfield, whose story, "The Fly," written in 1922, satirizes the seeming lack of importance of human life."
"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway was published on October 22, 1926.
"All Quiet on the Western Front" was written by Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970), a German author. It was written in 1927, not published until 1928.
Gertrude Stein publishes "The Autobiography..."
Gertrude Stein(1874-1946) publishes "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" in 1933.