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that a single terrorist act set off in chain
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serbia set off a chain the alliance system
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a large part of the german army would race west ,to defeat france
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this was very important because the first battle of the marne was the most important event in war
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Combatants
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they gambled that their naval blackade would starne britain into defeat befor the united states could mobilize
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united states joinded the allies , the war had been going on for nearly three years
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with the arrival two million american troops, the allied to began to duance steadily toward germay
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in a reailway car in a forest near paris , the two singed an armistice , or an agreement to stop fighting.
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the treaty of versailles between germant and the allied powers was singed in on june 28 five years to the day after franz ferdinand's assassination in sarajevo