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On 28 June 1914, a Serb nationalist by the name of Gavrilo Princip took the opportunity to show his feelings towards their imperial rulers while they peraded around the streets of Sarajevo. During the parade, he shot and killed Archduke France Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia.
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The Austrians issued a series of 10 harsh demands to Serbia. They only agreed to nine of the ten because agreeing to all of the demands would have meant that Serbia lost any real independence. Negotiations broke down and exactly one month after the assassination, Austria–Hungary declared war on Serbia.
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Because Russia was also a Slavicnation it promised to protect Serbia against Austria–Hungary and its ally in the Triple Alliance, Germany. When Russia then began preparing its army for war, on 31 July, Germany demanded that Russia stop these preparations. When Russia did not respond, Germany declared war.
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after germany had declared war on russia they asked france what there intensions were.The responce was that france would 'follow it's own intrests" in reality they were obligated to support its ally in the triple entente, Russia. germany then developed the Schlieffen Plan.
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The Schlieffen Plan (named after Alfred Von Schlieffen) called for German troops to launch an all-out attack on France by passing through neutral Belgium. The aim was that the French forces could be defeated before the huge Russian army was ready to go to war.
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On 3 August 1914, British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith
and Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey sent a message to the
German government announcing that Britain would declare
war if Germany did not withdraw its troops from Belgium
by midnight. There was no response to the message, so on
4 August 1914, Britain and its empire found itself at war
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Japan enters the war as an ally of Britain
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Both battles were decisive victories for Germany and left the Russians off balance until Spring 1915. Russia lost over 250000 men and was pushed fully out of German soil.
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The battle of flanders was the first world war battle fought the the strategicaly important town of Ypres. the main reasoning for this battle was for britain to secure the english channel ports and the British empires supply lines. It was also the last major obstical for the germans before they advanced Boulogne-sur-Mer (France).
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First convoy of transport ships carrying the AIF and the New Zealand Expeditionary Force departed for Europe from King George Sound, Albany, Western Australia.
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The first Zeppelin raid on Britain took place. on January 1915, Germany employed three zeppelins, the L.3, the L.4, and the L.6, in a two-day bombing mission against Britain. Two zeppelins succeeded in dropping their bombs on English towns.
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The Gallipoli Campaign (Battle of Gallipoli) was one of the Allies great disasters in World War One. It was carried out between 25th April 1915 and 9th January 1916 on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire. The doomed campaign was thought up by Winston Churchill to end the war early by creating a new war front that the Turkish could not cope with. Gollipoli cost 26,111 Australian casualties, including 8,141 deaths. it is said the gollipoli had no real effect on the on the war.
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The ANZACS main problem was leaving Gallipoli without arousing turkish suspisions. The plan was devised by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brudenell White, these plans consisted of elaborate deseption operations such as the 'silent stunts' where no machine gun or sniper rifle fire was to occure from the ANZAC lines. It was hoped that the Turks would see this as the ANZACS preparing for the winter rather then a withdrawal. Care was taken to keep up the irregualr artillery fire that would expected.
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The evacuation happened in three different phases the preliminary stage, the intermediate stage and the final stage. During the first to stages the ANZAC numbers fell from 41,000 to 26,000 - just enough to hold a turkish attack for one week. the last 26,000 soldiers would be evacuated over two nights in the final stage on the 18-19 and 19-20 december 1915. although ANZAC cove was used the main evacuation pionts were the piers at north beach.
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During the evacuation the ANZACS planted rifles in their trenches and the set weights to trigger the rifle automaticaly the set fuses and used rubber band to hold down the trigger of the abandoned rifles. Machine guns such as the lewis gun and the vickers heavy machine gun played vital parts in the battle of Gallipoli killing hundreds of soldiers along with trench mortars used to bomb ememy lines, hand genades, and hand guns such as the weebly .445 and the weebly MK IV.
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Conscription is the compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service.
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Start of the Battle of Verdun. The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single battle of World War One. he Battle of Verdun started on February 21st 1916 and ended on December 16th in 1916.
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For a number of months the French had been taking severe casualtie in Verdun (east of Paris). To relieve the French, the Allied High Command decided to attack the Germans to the north of Verdun therefore requiring the Germans to move some of their men away from the Verdun battlefield thus relieving the French. By the end of the battle, the British Army had suffered 420,000 casualties including nearly 60,000 on the first day alone. The French lost 200,000 men and the Germans nearly 500,000.
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Lloyd George become British Prim Minister.
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Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started. The use of submarine warfare was announced by Germany on January 9th, 1917
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Start of the Third Battle at Ypres. This battle was like the two other Ypres battles. it ended in much of the same way. The offensive resulted in gains for the Allies but was in no way the breakthrough britain intended.
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After many years of fighting and thousands of casualties the Turks retreat from the holy city of Jeruselum. the victory in Jeruselum was one of britain's greatest victories.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany. This treaty was a huge step for both countries. It alould them to have peace.
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turkey signed an armistice to end thier world war one campaign
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At 5 AM on the morning of November 11 an armistice was signed in a railroad car, parked in a French forest near the front lines.
