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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife assasinated
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Since there was no reply recieved by Germany from Russia they decided to declare war on Russia
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As Germany announces war with France, Italy announced that they will remain completely neutral.
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The First Battle of Marne took place on 5th Sept 1914. This resulted in Allied Victory against the German Army
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The first battle of Ypres was fought in Western Belgium involved German and Franco-British armies
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Turkey joins the central powers and enters war on side of Germany
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During the seconda battle of Ypress, Germans used poisonous gases against the Canadian troops at Ypres.
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The British forces landed in Gallipoli.
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The Lutsitania sunk by the German U boat off Queenstown. 124 Americans died.
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At 2.30pm at Helles, elements of the British 29th Division attacked towards a feature known as the Vineyard. This attack, like that by the Australians at Lone Pine at Anzac, was aimed at holding down Turkish reinforcements from the main thrust of the August offensive — the night march up the Sari Bair range to take Chunuk Bair and Hill 971 and the British landings at Suvla Bay.
Little progress was made in the Vineyard attack and the British 88th Brigade lost more than 2,000 men.
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It was a costly attack and it resulted in the Turks to use all of their reserves.
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The battle of Verdun (France) began, this was in attempt to break the French Army and cost a third of a million men.
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The major naval battle of World War1. This was between germany and the royal navy.
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The Battle of Somme also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire.
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New Prime Minister, David Lloyd George was elected
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On Feb. 3, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson announced that the United States was breaking off diplomatic relations with Germany after it had reinstituted its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
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The Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, signed his enforced abdication (in favour of Grand Duke Mikhail, who effectively declined power) on 15 March 1917 (2 March in the Julian calendar) at 3.05 p.m.
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The first of three battles fought in the Allied attempt to defeat Turkish forces in and around the Palestinian city of Gaza takes place on this day in 1917.
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The USA declared war on Germany. On act that helped to tip the balance in favour of the allies.
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The Battle of Arras was a British offensive during the First World War. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British, Canadian, South African, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Australian troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western Front.
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The Germans launched an attack at Nieuport. the extreme of the line on the Belgium coast.
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The Battle of Verdun is considered the greatest and lengthiest in world history.It involved so many men, situated on such a tiny piece of land. The battle, which lasted from 21 February 1916 until 19 December 1916 caused over an estimated 700,000 casualties (dead, wounded and missing).
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The First Battle of Passchendaele took place on 12 October 1917, in the Ypres Salient of the Western Front, west of Passchendaele village. The attack was part of the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War.
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The Second Battle of Passchendaele was the culminating attack during the Third Battle of Ypres of the First World War. The battle took place in the Ypres Salient area of the Western Front, in and around the Belgian town of Passchendaele, between 26 October and 10 November 1917.
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The British attack the Turkish line in Beersheba
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Jerusalem captured by the British
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers that ended Russia's participation in World War I. The treaty was signed at Brest-Litovsk after two months of negotiations. The treaty was forced on the Bolshevik government by the threat of further advances by German and Austrian forces.
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The Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought during the First World War on the Western Front from the end of the summer, in the basin of the River Somme. It was part of a series of successful counter-offensives in response to the German Spring Offensive, after a pause for redeployment and supply.British and German wounded the streets in St. Quentin.
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In what began as the last major German offensive of the First World War, the Second Battle of the Marne developed into a significant Allied victory.
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The Kiel mutiny unfolded in late 1918, as the war drew to a close, German sailors mutinied and the kaiser’s government collapsed. By September 1918 German generals were resigned to the fact they could not win the war. In October 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II named Prince Max von Baden, a minor royal of liberal political views, as chancellor. This appointment, it was hoped, would facilitate armistice negotiations with the Allies
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Armistice of Mudros, (Oct. 30, 1918), pact signed at the port of Mudros, on the Aegean island of Lemnos, between the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain marking the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I
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Gives up throne of Germany and Germany becomes republic
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An armistice was signed between Germany and the allies. Fighting on the western front ended at 11am. This marked the end on WW1.