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The shooting of the Austrian by a Seribian was an event that started the war. It led to conflicts between all the countries resulting into the Great War
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Austria rejected Serbias offer and declared war. That same day, Serbia's ally, Russia, took action. Russian leaders ordered the mobilization of troops toward the Austria border.
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Germany quickly put its military together to defeat France and then Russia. A large part of German Army would race West, to defeat France, and then return to fight Russia in the East
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The allies attacked Germany northeast of Paris, in the valley of the Marne River, Every available soilder was hurled into the struggle.When reinforcements were needed more then 600 taxicabs rushed soilders from Paris to the front.
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In the east, Russian forces had already invaded Germany. Germany was going to have to fight a long war on two fronts. Realizing this, the German high command sent thousands of troops from France to aid its forces in the east.
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As war on both European Fronts promised to be a grim, drawn-out affair, all the Great Powers looked for new allies to tip the balance.
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In February, the Germans launched a massive
attack against the French near Verdun. Each side lost more than 300,000 men. -
The Germans lauched a massive attack against the France near Verdun. Each side lost more than 3,000 men.
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In January 1917, the Germans announced that their submarines would sink without warning any ship in the waters around Britain. This policy was called unrestricted submarine warfare.
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countries devoted all their resources to the war effort.
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Lenin and the bolsheviks recognized their opportunity to seize power. They soon gained control of the Petrograd soviet.
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In March 1918, the Germans mounted one final, massive attack on the Allies in France. More than 6,000 German cannons opened the offensive with the largest artillery attack of the entire war.
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In July 1918, the Allies and Germans clashed at the Second Battle of the Marne.
Leading the Allied attack were some 350 tanks that rumbled slowly forward, smashing through the German lines. With the arrival of 2 million more American troops, the Allied forces began to advance steadily toward Germany. -
On November 9, 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced to step down. Germany declared itself a republic. A representative of the new German government met with Marshal Foch. In a railway car in a forest near Paris, the two signed an armistice, or an agreement to stop fighting. On November 11, World War I came to an end.
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The differences between French, British, and U.S. aims led to heated arguments among the nations’ leaders. Finally a compromise was reached. The Treaty of Versailles between Germany and the Allied powers was signed on June 28, 1919— five years to the day after Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in Sarajevo.