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France during WWI

By rubysolorio

  • Assasination of Franz Fernand at Savejo

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and his wife, had decided to inspect Austro-Hungarian troops in Bosnia. The date chosen for the inspection was a national day in Bosnia. The Black Hand supplied a group of students with weapons for an assassination attempt to mark the occasion.
    A Serbian student, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, when their open car stopped at a corner on its way out of the town.
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    France during WWI

  • Germany declared war on France

    Germany declared war on France. German troops came to Belgium under the Schleiffen Plan, drawn up in 1905.

  • Germany invaded France

  • The First Battle of Marne

  • The first Zeppelin raid

  • Dardenelles.

    The Russians appealed for help from Britain and France to beat off an attack by the Turkish. The British navy responded by attacking Turkish forts in the Dardenelles.

  • Second battle of Ypers

  • The Second Battle of the Marne

  • The Battle of Verdum

  • The battle of Somme

  • New Supreme War commander

    Lloyd George, who had never trusted his war minister's ability to direct the war, persuaded the Cabinet to appoint the French General Nivelle as supreme war commander over Haig's head.

  • France launched an unsuccessful offensive on the Western Front

  • Start of the Third Battle at Ypres

  • Marshall Foch was appointed Allied Commander on the Western Front

  • Germany asked the Allies for an armistice

  • Hindenberg line collapsed

    By the beginning of November the allies had pushed the Germans back beyond the Hindenberg line.

  • Allies recover France and Belgium

  • End of WWI

    Germany signed an armistice with the Allies. the official date of the end of World War

  • Peace conference at Paris

  • The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Germans