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Alliance of the German Empire , Austria-Hungary, Italy -
German Empire offered to help Morocco against France -
Revolution demanding the end of autocracy. Peaceful demonstration responded with brutal repression -
Authorised a Franco-Spanish protectorate, which forced Germany to back down -
Alliance of France, Russia, Britain -
Annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary, increased tension in the Balkans -
Wars in 1912 and 1913, Serbia allied with Russia and won. Austria-Hungary looked for the Germans for support -
Archiduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian empire was assassinated in Bosnia by Serbian nationalist organisations -
Austria-Hungary declared war to Serbia, which caused a domino effect and caused the start of First World War
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Germany declared war to France
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German offensive on the Western Front but were stopped by the French. Achieved very little depite enormous casualties -
Large demonstration in Russia in which the army joined. -
The tsar abdicated and a republic was proclaimed -
Lenin comes back from Switzerland and publishes his ideas that the Soviets should be the ones in power in the April Theses -
US joined First World War, which made it a truly global conflict
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The Bolsheviks occupied Petrograd and overthrew the provisional government. Bolsheviks were brought to power -
The provisional government made a election in the parliament in which the Bolsheviks didn't win so they decided to set a dictatorship
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Civil war between the Bolsheviks (Red Army) and the ones who opposed them (White Army). The Bolsheviks applied extreme measures and won, hardening the Soviet regime.
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Russia withdrew from the war signing a treaty with Germany -
German surrended and an armistice was signed, bringing the war to a end -
Conference in Paris to establish the terms for peace. Only the winners (France, Britain, US). France and Britain blamed Germany of the war -
Treaty signed with Germany which forced it to pay enormous amounts of money, took its colonial empire and part of its territory and its army and navy were reduced to a minimum -
The USSR was a federal state with a parliament and a single party. Totalitarian system justified by Marxism's theory of the proletariat dictatorship