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European Powers made allegiances to form new groups in order to maintain the balance of power between other European nations:
Triple Entente- Britain, France, Russia (August 31, 1907)
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Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist with ties to the secretive military group known as the Black Hand, on the 28th of June 1914 at Sarajevo
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From the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles
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With the fall of the Russians, this Treaty was signed in Buftea, Romania as a stalemate on the Eastern Front by the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and Romania
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At 11:00 AM in Paris, France, the Armistice of Compiègne was signed ending the fight on the Western Front
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In Versailles, France, the Treaty of Versailles was signed by the United States, British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, and Germany thus formally ending WWI
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led to WWII
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Hitler invaded Poland from the West which sparked conflict which led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany two days later
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From the Nazi invasion of Poland to the surrender of the Axis Powers
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With the Nazis invading Poland on the West, the Soviets invaded them from the East (it was ok because of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union)
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Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory which killed more than 2,300 Americans, completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S Arizona, and capsize the U.S.S Oklahoma
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The US flew by and dropped the atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima which wiped out over 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people, tens of thousands more would later die due to radation exposure
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The US dropped a second bomb over the city of Nagasaki thus killing around 40,000 more people
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At the end of WWII, two major powers were still standing: the United States and the USSR who were complete opposites of each other
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a state of geopolitical tension between powers in the Eastern Hemisphere, the USSR, and the Western Hemisphere, the United States that took place in space, economy-wise, proxy locations, etc.
