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World War 1
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Assasination of Franz Fredinand
It happened in the Bonsian city, Sarajevo, a Serbian group called the "blackhands" were all in it. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
After Franz Ferdinand's assasination ,Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War. -
Germany invades Belgium
Germany invades belgium to outflank the French army. -
African Campaigns
Some of the first clashes of the war involved British, French and German colonial forces in Africa -
Serbian Campaign
The Serbian army fought the Battle of Cer against the invading Austro-Hungarians, beginning on 12 August, occupying defensive positions on the south side of the Drina and Sava rivers -
Battle of Tannenberg
Was a battle between the Russian empire and the German empire in the first days of the World War -
Battle of Marne
Also known as the Miracle of Marne. it was the first world war it happened during the 5th of september untill september 12 -
War in the Balkans
After suffering heavy losses, the Austrians briefly occupied the Serbian capital, Belgrade. Austrain troops captured serbians. -
Second battle of Ypres
The Germans used chlorine gas for the first time on the Western Front. -
Declaration of war by the United States
German U-boats, patrolling in the Atlantic Ocean, fired torpedos at the British passenger ship Lucitania sinking her in 20 minutes. Onboard were 128 Americans. American soldiers in the Trenches -
Sinking of Lusitania
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. the ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 -
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Battle of Verdun
It was fought between the German and French armies. on hilly terrain north of the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. -
Battle of Jutland
A naval battle between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet. Reinhard Scheer, German fleet commander -
Battle of Somme
also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War in the Somme department of France. -
USSR withdrawls from war
Russia signalled her withdrawal from World War One soon after the October Revolution of 1917, and the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard. Russian soldier -
german spring offenive of 1918
Luderndorff ordered a massive German attack on the Western Front.With 500,000 troops added to Germany’s strength from the Russian Front, Luderndorff was confident of success.Hindenburg and Luderndorff -
world war one ends
germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France and to pay the Allies some of the costs of waging what was then the bloodiest conflict in history, leaving nearly ten million soldiers dead.
