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He was a target of assassination, because he was next in line to the throne, and was very wealthy. He was a target because many people in the Balkans were angered by Austria's annexation of Bosnia a few years earlier. -
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German troops overran Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France in six weeks starting in May 1940. France signed an armistice in late June 1940, leaving Great Britain as the only country fighting Nazi Germany. -
Events at the Marne signaled the demise of Germany's aggressive two-front war strategy, known as the Schlieffen Plan; they also marked the end of the general belief, held on both sides of the line, that the conflict that broke out in the summer of 1914 would be a short one. -
It was a joint British and French operation meant to capture the capital city Constantinople and to secure a sea route to Russia. This failed, with nearly half a million casualties. -
The Battle of Verdun was a planned German assault on the French fortress of Verdun. The battle was meant, solely, to kill or injure as many French soldiers as possible -
The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of World War I, and among the bloodiest in all of human history. A combination of a compact battlefield, destructive modern weaponry and several failures by British military leaders led to the unprecedented slaughter of wave after wave of young men.
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He was brought in to heal the Czar and Czarina's son of hemophilia and it seemed as though Rasputin helped the son. Eventually he became the Czarina's personal advisor much to the Russian citizens' dismay. Rasputin was murdered by a group of Russian noblemen because of the bad decisions he had influenced. -
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated from the Russian throne. This brought to an end the Romanov dynasty that had ruled Russia for over three hundred years. strikes in Petrograd led to a demonstration and Cossack soldiers refused the Tsar's orders to fire on demonstrators. -
He led Bolshevik forces to overthrow the Provisional Government. protect themselves from their enemies. countries built up their military to protect their colonies. his supporters lifted him on top of an armored car, from where he declared — no support for the provisional government, peace, and land! This was what came to be known as his 'April Theses' -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers, that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
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After more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I.
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The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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The United States Congress declared war upon Germany, hours after Germany declared war on the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan