Key Figures

Woodrow Wilson

28th U.S. President. Led America through World War I and crafted the Versailles Treaty's "Fourteen Points,"

Wilson created the Federal Reserve and signed the 19th Amendment, allowing women to vote.

British Prime Minister, worked with Woodrow Wilson when Wilson was developing 14 points speech.

Died in 1945.

Winston Churchill

Britain’s prime minister during World War II, he played a significant role in World War I as well, serving as the head of Britain’s navy until he was demoted in 1915 following the British failure at the Dardanelles.

Sir Christopher Cradock

A British admiral in command of the Fourth Squadron. Cradock is mainly known for his catastrophic loss at the Battle of Coronel on November 1, 1914, in which he lost his life.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

The archduke of Austria, nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph, and heir to the Habsburg throne. Franz Ferdinand’s assassination on June 28, 1914, by Serbian militant Gavrilo Princip, is generally considered the unofficial start of World War I.

Gavrilo Princip

A teenage Serbian militant who assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914. Princip was armed and trained by a Serbian terrorist group known as the Black Hand. His assassination of Ferdinand is widely considered to be the opening shot of World War I. Princip spent the war in prison, where he died of tuberculosis in 1918.

Radomir Putnik

Radomir Putnik, also known as Vojvoda Putnik, the Serbian Field Marshal and Chief of General Staff in the Balkan Wars and the World War I, and took part in all wars that Serbia waged from 1876 to 1917