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France loses land to Prussia in the Franco-Prussian war
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German empire established
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Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated by a serbian nationalist in sarajevo
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Germany invades Belgium causing Britain to declare war on Germany drawing Australia into the war as it is a part of the British Empire
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An australian military expedition takes control of German New Guinea.
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The British Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire as it allied with Germany
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Australian and British troops land in Gallipoli to threaten the Ottoman capital Constantinople
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Stretcher bearer John Simpson Kirkpatrick is killed in Gallipoli.
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The passenger liner RMS Luisitania, is sunk by German U-Boat
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Billy Hughes replaces Andrew Fisher as Labor leader and Prime Minister
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The Galli[poli campaign ends with the evacuation of British Empire forces from the peninsula.
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Irish nationalists rebel against the British rule in the Easter rising.
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The Somme campaign begins
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Australians join the western front wiht the battle of Fromelles
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The Russian revolution begins after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
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The USA declares war on the Germans
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The Germans launch a spring offensive in an attemp to force a conclusive victory on the Western Front
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American President Woodrow Wilson issues his 'Fourteen Points' designed to demonstrate the morality of the anti-German cause and to bring about the stable post-war environment
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The Battle of Amiens begins a series of encounters that result in a German collapse on the Western front. Australians are prominent in the fighting.
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Following the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Germans agree to an armistice concluding hostilities
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Allies maintained a naval blockade of Germany, Germany relied on imports this caused an estimated 523,000 civilian deaths
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Germans are restricted to 100,00 soldiers and no tanks, U-boats or aeroplanes after Treaty of Versailles
