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World War One / Russian Revolution
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Russo-Japanese War
Russo-Japanesse War was between the Russian Empire and Japan Empire over rival imperial ambitions. Russo-Japeness war didn't end unil September 1905. -
Bloody Sunday
Strikes and riots broke out throughout the country in outraged response to the massacre. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. -
Austria-Hungry annexes Bosnia
Baron Aerenthal, foreign minister of Austria-Hungary, saw his empire’s chance to assert its dominance in the Balkans and took bosnia. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke and wife was shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. -
Austria-Hungry declares war on Serbia
Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife are assassinated which caused Austria-Hungry to declare war on serbia. -
Russia mobilizies Army
One of the main causes of Worls War 1. -
Schlieffen Plan put into action
The operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension -
France loses Alsace & Loraine to Germany
During the Franco-Prussia war they lost Alsace and Loraine to Germany. -
Germany invades Belguim
The German government wrote to the Belgian government demanding the right of free passage across Belgium for its troops. Which Belguim refused to let the germans pass through, so german invaded Belguim. -
Start of the Battle of Marne
First World War battle fought through September of 1914. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German Army. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania. The sinking of the Lusitania played a significant role in turning public opinion against Germany, both in the United States and abroad. -
Start of the battle of Verdun
One of the largest battles of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies. -
Start of the Battle of the Somme
A battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. The British suffered more than 57,000 casualties, by the end of the campaign the Allies and Central Powers lost more than 1.5 million men. -
Zimmerman Telograph found
A message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador of Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany. -
Russian Czar Nicholas 2nd Abdicates
Nicholas led his country into another costly war, and discontent in Russia grew as food became scarce, soldiers became war-weary, and devastating defeats on the eastern front demonstrated the czar’s ineffectual leadership. Whiched casued the Petrograd insurgents to force him to leave the throne. -
U.S enters World War 1
Germany kept hitting the U.S merchant ships, and sinking of other ships, such as the Lusitania causing thousands of people injured or killed. The U.S finally got tired of Germany and declares war. -
October Revolution
Leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the provisional government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in Petrograd, and soon formed a new government with Lenin as its head. -
Fourteen Points proposed
One result of the October Revolution was to force the Allies to issue statements of war aims. Woodrow Wilson issued public explanations of what they hoped to accomplish through a victory over the Central Powers known as the 14 points. Wildrow Wilson hoped that the promise of a just peace would be embraced by the populations in enemy nations and generate momentum for ending the war. -
Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russia signs a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War I. The terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, led Russia giving up half of it's states, coal, oil and iron stores and much of its industries. -
Russian Civil War
A multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions. The main fighting was between the Red Army and the White Army. -
Armistice Signed
The Armistice ended the wars between the Allies and Germany. -
Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd abdicates
Germany had suffered greatly during the war, combined with a naval mutiny convinced civilian political leaders that the kaiser had to abdicate to preserve order. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. -
Stalin takes over Russia
Takes over russia after lenin dies.
