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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Most of Europe was divided into two groups the Triple Entente; that group consisted of Great Britain, France, and Russia. Then there was the Triple Alliance which was Austria-Hungry, Germany, and Italy. This event was the spark to the Great War. This was the start of WWI. This is were people chose sides and allies. -
WWI had begun.
This is the begining of a great war with Russia, France, Britain against Germany and Austria-Hungry. This is the day the war began. -
Western Front
The Schlieffen Plan was a plan to have Germany defeat France and return to Russia and attack them.
This was the plan that the Germans used to try to stop France and Russia, but failed. This plan turned into a brutle stalemate. -
Western Front
event: the Allies attacked the Germans northeast of Paris, in the valley of the Marne River.
importance: this is when the Germans had to retreat and the schlieffen plan started to go down hill from there. -
Eastern Front
Event: Austria-Hungry deafted Russia and drove them eastward.
Signifigance:this is when Russia started to lose power and the rest of the world started to get more involved in the war. -
Gallipoli Campaign
the effort to take the Dardanelles strait. by doing this the allies could try to take over constantinople.
this is important because, -
battle
event: Germans launched a massive
attack against the French near Verdun
signifigance: each side lost more than 300,000 men.this was the peak of when the new millitary tools were killing many people at once. -
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1916 (battle on Western Front)
event: British forces attacked the Germans northwest of Verdun, in the valley of the Somme river.
signifigance: both sides lost at leasat 20,000 men and had over half a million causalties. -
(strategy development)
event: the Germans announced that their submarines would sink without warning any ship in the waters around Britain. This policy was called unrestricted submarine warfare.
signifigance: this was when the United States started to get involved in the war when the Germans would sink american ships. -
(event/alliance)
event: President Wilson asked Congress to declare war. The United States entered the war on the side of the Allies.
signifigance:this is when our country entered the war a huge part in our history. -
(development on Eastern Front)
event: ommunist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power of Russia.
signifigance: he insisted the Russia pull our of the war. -
(battle on Western Front)
event: the Allies and Germans clashed at the Second Battle of the Marne.
signifigance: With the arrival of 2 million more American troops, the Allied forces began to advance steadily toward Germany.we were getting closer to winning the war. -
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World War I came to an end.
signifigance: this was the end of the great war. no more fighting and battles -
(event)
event: The Treaty of Versailles between Germany and the Allied powers was signed
signifigance: this would help settle all the arguments all the nation leaders still had.