22nd April 1915
The Second Battle of Ypres begins. Poison gas is used for the first time by Germans in an attack on the Canadian sector.
23rd April 1915
Allied forces make landings an Gallipoli, Turkey
4th April 1916
The American naval and military attaches in Paris and London draft a plan for mobilizing US shipping to carry an American army to Europe, but their plan is ignored.
19th April 1916
President Wilson, publicly calls for the German's to stop their submarine policy of sinking all ships in enemy waters without warning.
27th April 1916
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, asks for American military participation in Europe.
29th April 1916
British forces surrender to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia.
2nd April 1917
President Woodrow Wilson delivers war address to Congress at 8:32 pm and asks the House of Representatives to declare war on Germany.
5th April 1917
German forces finish their withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line.
6th April 1917
United States comes out of neutrality and declares war on Germany, thus entering the First World War.
9th April 1917
The Nivelle Offensive begins.
13th April 1917
Canadian troops take Vimy Ridge and the surrounding area in one of Canada's finest battles of the war.
20th April 1917
The Nivelle Offensive, which includes the Second Battle of Aisne and the Third Battle of Champagne ends in French Failure.
29th April 1917
Chemin des Dames Offensive ends in disastrous failure for the French having advanced only 500 yards at the cost of 250,000 casualties. A month long series of mutinies break out amongst the French army.
9th April 1918
Germany launches second Spring offensive, the Battle of the Lys, in the British sector of Armentieres.
14th April 1918
Foch appointed Commander-in-Chief of Allied forces on Western Front
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