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Italy entered the war on the side of the Allies, and the first person they attack is Austria-Hungary
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sopfia were gunned down in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The gunned was later idenitfied as Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian.
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The Austrian government blamed the Serbian government for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife and declared war on Serbia. Although Russia was allied with Serbia, Germany did not believe that they would mobilize and offered to support Austria if necessary. However, Russia did mobilize and, through their alliance with France, called on the French to mobilize.
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Germany declared war on France. German troops marched into Belgium as a direct under the Schleiffen Plan.
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Germany did not withdraw from Belgium and Britain declared war on Germany.
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Japan declared war on Germany through her alliance with Great Britain, signed in 1902
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Turkey entered the war on the side of the central powers and gave help to a German naval bombardment of Russia.
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Because of the help given by Turkey to the German attack of Russia, Russia declared war on Turkey.
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Britain and France, Russia's allies, declared war on Turkey, because of the help given to the German attack on Russia.
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Woodrow Wilson is re-elected in the USA with a campaign slogan of "He kept us out of the war"
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Battle of the Somme ends.
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The First German airplane (as opposed to Zeppelin) air-raid is conducted on Britain.
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US occupation of Santa Domingo proclaimed.
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The United States of America declared war on Germany in response to the sinking, by German U boats, of US ships.
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The Bolshevik overthrow the Kerensky's government and install of a Communist one under Lenin
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British reach Passchendaele. Third Battle of Ypres ends.
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Battle of Cambrai begins with a surprise tank attack by the British.
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The German fleet mutinies at Kiel. Trieste falls to the Allies as Austro-Hungary concludes an armistice
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Allies accept the fourteen points.
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Germany begins negotiations for an armistice with the Allies in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne
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Armistice day as fighting ceases at 11am - World War I ends. Central Powers are forced to annul the Brest-Litovsk Treaty.
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The Treaty of Versailles was signed on this day. It had stripped Germany's war making power, and making them sole responsible for the war.
