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WWI begins in earnest for all sides except for the US and Brazil dragged into war.
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Nothing special; just wanted to make things a little bit cheerful before all the woe and death after this.
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Unrestricted submarine warfare begins in earnest.
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Allied armies are forced to pull out after 9 months of bitter fighting resulting in 500,000+ casualties on both sides.
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Loss of 1,198 civilians, 128 of whom are American.
This incident will be used as a rallying cry to war later on in 1917 in the US. -
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From February 21st to December 18th, more than 1 million soldiers are thought to have died in the forts, trenches, and fields surrounding the town of Verdun.
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For the first time, all four Canadian divisions were to fight together.
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Introduction of the tank, though no breakthrough and over 1 million casualties both sides combined.
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In it, the German Reich's Foreign Secretary Zimmermann urges Mexico to declare war on the US.
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Largely due to the ineptitude of the Tsar in quelling the bread riots in Petrograd, which evolved into a mass Proletariat movement led by the workers' councils, or Soviets.
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Gaining only 500 yards at the cost of 250,000+ lives.
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Led by Lenin and Trotsky, the Bolshevik party overthrows the Provisional gov't.
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With one penstroke, the Russians lose land that took their ancestors a hundred years to conquer.
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To prevent the White Army from capturing them from the Red Army, Bolshevik security were given orders to shoot them before they themselves retreated.
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Allied counteroffensive since August pushes past fortifications at Hindenburg line
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Known in short time as the "Weimar Republic" for the town where the constitution of the new republic was darwn up.
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November 11th becomes known as "Armistice Day".
