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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Him and his wife were killed in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip. After they were traveling to see the injured. Franz and Sophie decided to go to the palace, but the driver took a wrong turn and Princip spotted them. Prinicp shot Sophie in the abdomen and Franz in the jugular vein. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
One month after Franz and his wife were assasinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, and it effectively begins the First World War. -
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World War 1 ends
By the end of the war, four major imperial powers—the German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires—ceased to exist. -
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom delcares war on Germany, after Germany indaves Belguim. -
German invasion of Belgium
The Germans invaded on August 4. The Germans did not subdue the defenses of the city until October 10th, 1914, when the last elements of Belgian opposition surrendered.After the war ended, Albert I was reinstated as monarch and he returned to Brussels to lead his nation once more, ruling until his death in 1934. -
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The Battle of Tannenberg
THis war is the most spectacular and complete German victory of the First World War. General Samsonov had begun to take his Second Army into the south-western corner of East Prussia while the first army advanced into the north- east.The two armies planned to combine in assaulting General Prittwitz's German Eighth Army. -
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The First Battle of the Marne
The First Battle of the Marne was conducted between 6-12 September 1914, with the outcome bringing to an end the war of movement that had dominated the First World War.The French incureed 250,000 losses, and theGermans suffered similar casulaties. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
At 1;40 p.m, the U-boat launched a torpedo. The torpedo hit the starboard side of the Lusitania. The Lusitania sunk within 18 minutes and of the 1,959 people on board, 1,198 died. -
Battle of Somme
The battle of somme begins. During the battle of the Somme, tanks are first introduced into battle. -
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The Battle of Verdun
The battle of Verdun was the longest and the bloodest in World War 1. -
United states declare war
President Woodrow Wilson asked congress to declare war against Germany. The reason the U.S. stepped in was because Germany started submarine warfare. -
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Battle of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland was a naval battle fought by the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet against the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet during the First World War. -
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The Battle of the Somme
The attack was launched upon a 30 kilometre front, from north of the Somme river between Arras and Albert. Then it was called off on November 8, 1916. -
Tsar Nichlas 2nd
Tsar Nicholas 2nd takes personal control over Russia's armies. -
Ypres
The battle of Passchendaele (also known as the Third Battle of Ypres) begins. -
USSR withdraws from War
The withdraw of the war was the shortage of of food war material and losing a lot of battles. -
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Russia signs the treaty of Breat Litovsk which is the peace treaty betwwen Russia and the Central Powers. -
German Spring offensive of 1918
On March 21st, 1918, Luderndorff launched the offensive.In just five hours, the Germans fired one million artillery shells at the British lines held by the Fifth Army – over 3000 shells fired every minute
