Events Leading to WW1

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  • Gavrilo Pricip kills Archduke Fracis Ferdinand

    Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, made it to Sarajeveo. Both killed by a man named Gavrilo Princip.
  • Germany declares war on Serbia

  • Russia, as Serbia's protecter, readies its troops.

  • Germany declares war on Russia

  • Britain has been brought into war after invasion of Belgium

  • The Ottoman Empire had been brought into war

  • Italy had joined the Allies

  • German opinions bitterd in America after sinking the Lusitania

  • Germand U-Boat torpedoed the Sussex (A british cruise liner)

  • Germany informed the US in would end the Sussec pledge.

  • America broke off diplomatic relations with Germany.

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    Germands sank 3 American ships

    City of Memphis, Illinois, and Vagilancia
  • Starting in this time ships traveled in convoys.

  • Germand forces attack British lines

  • Congres decides to call the war officialy over

  • Another joint resolution to end the war passed.