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Francis Ferdinard was assassinated at Sarajevo along with his wife and heir.
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Kaiser William II promised to join forces with Austria against Serbia.
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Austria announced war on Serbia
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Germany declared war on Russia
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Germany announced war on France and entered Belgium with large numbers of armed soldiers
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Britain declared war on Germany
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Germany invaded France.
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The Russian army was defeated at Masurian Lakes and Tannenburg.
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The First Battle of the Marne ,the war of movement seen since August 1914 had gone and the trench warfare associated with World War One had come into action.
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Turkeys army joined forces with the Germans as trench warfare started to dominate the western front.
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The first Zeppelin raid on Britain was on this day.
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Britain bombarded Turkish forts in the dardanelles
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Allied troops landed in Gallipoli otherwise known as ANZAC day.
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The Lusitania was a ship that was sailed from New York and was bound for Liverpool. It was thought that this event would spark some major impact on America with WWI
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Italy declared war on Austria and Germany.
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The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians.
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The Beginning of The Battle of Loos
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The Allied troops started the evacuation of Gallipoli.
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The reason behind Conscription was that the British army had a lot of Conscientious objectors; people who weren't enthusiastic about the idea of war. the previous Battles such as the Battle of ypres, had cost Britain many casulties. In response to this, the government introduced conscription, where the law stated that you had to serve your country in the military for a certain period of time
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Start of the Battle of Verdun.
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British forces surrended to the Turkish at Kut, Mesopotamia.
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Battle of Jutland.
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Start of the Brusilov Offensive.
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Start of the Battle of the Somme.
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End of the Brusilov Offensive.
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36 Tanks made an en masse attack at the Somme.
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Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister.
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The use of unrestricted submarine warfare had a major impact on World War One, it was one of the main reasons why America joined the war.
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USA declared war on Germany.
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France launched an unsuccessful offence at the western front.
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Start of the Third Battle at Ypres.
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It was at the Battle of Caporetto that the Italian Army was heavily defeated.
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Britains launched a massive offence at the western Front.
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Britains tanks won a victory at Cambrai.
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An armistice between the Germans and Russians were signed.
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British Army captured Jerusalem from the Turks.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was arranged and signed between the Russians and Germans.
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The Germans broke through on the Somme.
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Marshall Foch had been appointed as Allied Commander on the western Front.
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The Germans started an offencive in Flanders.
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Second Battle on the Marne started and caused the start of the collapse of the Germany's army.
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The advance of the allies were successful.
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It was Megiddo that the Turkish Forces collapsed.
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The Germans asked allies for an armistice.
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Germany's navy was mutinied.
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Turkey made peace.
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Austria made peace.
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Kaiser William II was abdicated.
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The Germans signed an armistice with the allies, the official date of the end od WWI.
