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This terrorist act caused the largest war in Europe/World.
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Austria rejecting the offer caused war between the two countries.
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Countries in Central Powers were Germany and Austria-Hungary. Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire later joined. The countries in the Allied Powers were Great Britain, France, and Russia. Later Japan and Italy joined.
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The defeat of the Austrians caused them to go deeper into Austria. Later Germans helped turn it around causing the Russians to go east.
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The Allies attacked Germans northeast of Paris, in the valley of the Marne River.
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British, Australian, New Zeleand, and French tropps assaulted the Gallipoli Peninsula. Turkish troops defended the area. Both sides dug trenches and fought for the rest of the year.
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Each side lost more than 300,000 men. Germans attacked the French near Verdun.
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British forces attacked Germans northwest of Verdun.On the first day 20,000 British soldiars were killed. By the end of the war almost half a million on both sides were killed.
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German submarines would sink submarines without warning any ship in the waters around Britain.
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President Wilson asked Congress to declare war.
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Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin siezed power of Russia. He insisted that the country ended the involvement in the war.
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Germany and Russia signed this treaty, that ended the war between them.
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The Allies and Germans clashed. The Allied forces steadily advanced toward Germany.
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Leaders of multiple nations gathered outside of Paris to work out peace.
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Germany and the Allied Powers signed the treaty.This treaty created the League of Nations.