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This day ignited agiant blaze. This single terrorist act set off a chain reaction within the alliance system that would result in the largest war Europe, and the world had ever seen.
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The Alliance System collapses, and because of this, war was started with Great Britain, France, and Russia on this day.
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Germany had a plan that by the end of August, the Germans had overrun Belgium and swept into France. This plan was by Schlieffen.
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Both sides were sending millions more men to fight on the Eastern Front. This area was a stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border.
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Allies attacked the Germans northest of Paris in the valley of the Marne River.
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By early 1915, opposing armies on the Western Front had dugmiles of parallel trenches to protect themselves from enemy fire. This became known as trench warfare.
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The Germans launched a massiveattack against the French near Verdun. Each side lost more than 300,000 men.
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The British army tried to help ease the pressure on the French.British forces attacked the Germans northwest of Verdun, in the valley of the Somme River. In the first day over 20,000 British soldiers were killed
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In January 1917,the Germans announced that their submarines would sink without warning any ship in thewaters around Britain.
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On April 2, 1917,President Wilson asked Congress to declare war. The United States entered the waron the side of the Allies.
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Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin of Russia, seized power. He insisted on endinghis country’s involvement in the war.
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Germany and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which endedthe war between them.
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Allies defeat Germany at Second Battle of the Marne.
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World War I came to an end.After four years of slaughter and destruction, the time had come to forge a peacesettlement.
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The Treaty of Versailles between Germany and the Allied powers was signed on June 28, 1919