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The assassination was commited to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia.
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Germany had to implement the Schlieffen Plan. It was a strategic plan for victory in a possible future war where it might find itself fighting on two fronts. Germany also declared war on France and invaded Belgium.
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The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians. Germans then occupy Warsaw during the period of success that followed their great breakthrough victory at Gorlice-Tarnow.
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sometimes referred to as the Second Battle of Artois. The Artois campaigns comprised the major Allied offensive on the Western Front
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He guided the Empire through the First World War to victory over Germany. He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered the world after the Great War
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President of the United States publicly declared that he had ordered the American Navy and Air Force to shoot on sight at any German war vessel.
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Austro-Hungarian forces, reinforced by German units, were able to break into the Italian front line and rout the Italian army. The Italian Army was heavily defeated.
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Marshall Foch Appointed Allied Commander on the Western Front. Foch was given the command of the French Ninth Army which fought at the Battle of the Marne - the battle that stopped the German advance on Paris.
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Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo. It is also famous as the last great cavalry victory.
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The armistice between the Allies and Germany was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest, and marked the end of fighting in the First World War on the Western Front
