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The beggining of this war was started by the assation of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip on June 28 1914 the war started a month later.
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Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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Germany invaded Belgium following a strategy know as the Schlieffen Plan this was the first move in the war. The US remained out of the war for it did not concern our people.
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Germany declared war on Belgium. They invaded in a right flanking move designed to defeat France quickly. As a result of this invasion, Britain declares war on Germany
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27,000 French soldiers die on this single day in an offensive thrust to the east of Paris, towards the German borders
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U-boat sinks the Lusitania. 1,198 civilians, including 128 Americans die
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US President Wilson publicly warns Germany not to continue unrestricted submarine warfare policies
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Woodrow Wilson re-elected President of the United States with campaign slogan: He kept us out of the war
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The United States passes the Selective Service Act empowering the Federal Government to draft men for the armed forces.
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Two waves of influenza kill more people than did the war
Due to close quarters
Unclean conditions
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At eleven o'clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the war ends as Germany and Allies sign an Armistice
