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The date of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
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After the ultimatum expired on this day, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
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Timespan of WWI
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Germany declared war on Russia convinced that France would side with Russia.
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Italy's neurtralty until eventually falling into the war.
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Great Britain declared war on Germany.
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The Ottoman Empire entered the war on the side of Austria-Hungary and Germany.
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By late 1915 the war in the west had become a stalemate on land as well as on sea. military leaders on both sides began to wonder whether the could ever break through the other's trenches. as both armies continued their attacks, small areas of land changed hands again and again. Thousands and thousands of lives were snuffed out. The conflict had become a war of attrition—a slow wearing-down process in which each side was trying to outlast the other.(needs shorting and the confilt goes on and on
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Italy remained neutral for 10 months until May 1915, Italy entered the war against Germany and Austria- Hungary.
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In May 1916 both Germany and Great Britain claimed victory. (The German navy remained in port for the rest of the war.)
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Britain introduces tanks into the war.
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The only large naval battle of the war was fought, at the Battle of Jutland, in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. Both Germany and Great Britain claimed victory. However, the German navy remained in port for the rest of the war.
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President Wilson addressed Congress, saying that "the world must be made safe for democracy." On April 6, 1917, Congress voted to declare war on Germany.
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President Wilson speaks to Congress, introducing an outlined set of ideas for a more just world once the war ended. His plan became known as the Fourteen Points.
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A German delagation signed an armistice, an agreement to stop fighting (the armistice provided that at 11:00am. on November 11,1918, all fighting cease).
