Major Events of World War One

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  • Assasination

    Assasination

    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austro-Hungarian empire, in Sarajevo, Bosnia

  • It goes down

    Outbreak of war - Germany declares war on Russia

  • Germany declares war on France

    Brittian declares war on germany the next day
  • Battle of tennenburg

    Battle of tennenburg

    which Russia loses; Germany's greatest success of the war on Eastern Front
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    September 15 - November 24 The "race to the sea", trenches appear on September 15

  • Turkey enters the war on the side of the Central Powers

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    Allied offensive in Artois and Champagne

  • First Zepplin attack on England

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    Ausro-Hungarian attack on Russian Poland collapses, with russians counterattacking

  • Ignoring treaty agreements with the Central Powers, Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • Germans capture Warsaw

    Germans capture Warsaw

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    German attack on Verdun in the longest battle of the war, ultimately defended by the French at great cost to both sides

  • Lustania is sunk

    Lustania is sunk

  • Battle of Jutland, the biggest naval battle in history, ultimately without a clear victor

  • Start of the Battle of the Somme, with the greatest number of casualties in British military history, 60,000

  • US marines land in Haiti

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    Romania enters war with the allies but is quickly over run by germans

  • Tanks introduced for the first time on the Somme battlefield by the British

    Tanks introduced for the first time on the Somme battlefield by the British

  • woodrow wilson is re-elected

  • Brittish capture Baghdad

  • US declares war on Germany

    US declares war on Germany

  • Greece enters the war on the side of the Allies

  • U.S declares war on Austria -Hungary

  • Jerusalem falls to Britain

  • Germany launches Spring push, eventually mounting five major offensives against Allied forces, starting with the Battle of Picardy against the British

  • Turkey changes sides to allies

  • Armistice day; fighting ceases at 11am

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