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The USA did not want to join the war because. Wilson was firmly opposed to war, and believed that the key aim was to ensure peace, not only for the United States but across the world.
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The assassination of the presumptive heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, took place in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, when they were fatally wounded by Gavrilo. This pretty much started the war.
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The Togoland Campaign was a French and British invasion of West Africa's German colony of Togoland, which started the First World War West African Campaign.
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On 15 August 1914, Japan sent Germany an ultimatum which went unanswered; on 23 August 1914, in the name of Emperor Taishō, Japan formally declared war on Germany. ... Japanese forces landed in the Shandong province of China on 2 September 1914 and surrounded the German settlement at Tsingtao.
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mechanized warfare with things such as machine guns and heavy artillery. And the outdated tactics could not withstand mechanized warfare with caused a lot of death.
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The aircraft's were used for reconnaissance for artillery. There were 222 million rounds used in WW1. And of those 222 m 100,000 tons were chemical weapons.
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submarines were used be both sides in the war.
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In Ypres, Belgium, the Battle of Ypres took place and began on April 22, 1915. It was the first major World War 1 battle to take place. Germany used mustard poison gas to suffocate the Allied Forces in this war.
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during the submarine warfare in the Atlantic the Germans sank the Lusitania. The German sub torpedoed the Lusitania it sunk in 20 minutes off the coast of island taking 128 Americans with it. this brought america into the war.
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Valuable experience was obtained from the British Army. Although heavy losses were suffered by the British Army for comparatively little territorial advantage on the Somme, the war was gradually seen as significant in supplying training that later led to the Western Front victory.
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Because the mechanization of war happened and advancements in weapons technology. The outdated tactics of war caused trench warfare. The use of chemical warfare. Also the difficulty in supplying any advancements. Also tanks were used to try and get through the trenches.
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On November 11, 1918 the war ended. with the stalemate in the west and the losses in the east the germane singed the Treaty of Versailles. And almost all country boarder went back to were they were except Libya.
