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Juli, Paige, Birch

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  • Franz and his wife were shot.

    Franz and his wife were shot.

    Gavrilo Princip shot Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo.

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

    This was because Franz and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated.
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    World War 1

    More than 9 million combates were killed

  • Germany invades Belgium

    Belgium was a neutral country, and was protected by Great
    britian.

  • Germany invades Belgium

    Germany invades neutral Belgium and Luxembourg as part of the Schlieffen Plan, in attempt to capture Paris
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    Battle of Tannenberg

    Major defeat for the Russian Army.
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    First Battle of the Marne

    Allies had to withdraw and they realized that it was going to be a long drawn out struggle.

  • German attack

    German submarine attack happened on Le Havre

  • 1st German gas attack

    German poison gas attack happened against the Russians

  • Germany began Blockade

    Germany began a blockade of Britian.

  • Germany began submarine war

    Germany began an "unrestricted" submarien war.

  • Germany sank US ships

    Germany sank US ships at the Carribean and Evelyn and torpedoed Norwegian ship Regin.

  • Sinking of Lusitania

    There was heavy fog and the captian did not notice that a German 20 boat had seen them and set a target on them. U-20 set a torpedo after them.
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    Battle of Verdun

    Happened during the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies.

  • Battle of Jutland

    Largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the war. Happened on June 1, 1916 too.
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    Battle of Somme

    One of the largest battles in World War 1.

  • US declares war on Germany

    President Wilson signed the Declaration,

  • USSR withdrawls

    USSR withdrawls from war in 1917
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    German Spring Offensive

    Marked the deepest advances by either side since 1914.