World War 1

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  • Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

    Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

    Franz Ferdinand, heir to Austria-Hungary, and his wife were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian Nationalist, who believed Austria-Hungary shouldn't annex Serbian territories and wanted to stop him. This ultimately started the war as Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia.
  • Invasion of Belgium

    Invasion of Belgium

    Although given an ultimatum from Russia, Germany advances into Belgium and passes through all troops and weapons in efforts of reaching Paris.
  • Invasion of Russia

    Invasion of Russia

    Many of Austria-Hungarian troops managed to close in on southern Russian borders as some German troops closed in from their borders with Russia. Russia was unaware of the "attack" and only preparing to halt Germanys invasion of France. Although Russia had soldiers at their borders they were quickly out numbered on both sides.
  • End of Invasion

    By this time, all of Germanys troops and weapons have passed through Belgium, and are now preparing to invade France and Russia using the Schlieffen Plan
  • Battle of the Marne begins

    Battle of the Marne begins

    Great Britain sent Germany an ultimatum telling them to stop their invasion of France or face going to war with them. Germany then ignores it and moves closer to Paris anyway, the battle between the France and Germany begin, and Great Britain prepares to send troops to help France.
  • Allied Forces

    Allied Forces

    As Great Britain begins sending in troops, France is heavily outnumbered by Germany and loses a lot of men before help can arrive. Britains only sends as many people as they can and try to help as much as possible
  • End of the battle

    End of the battle

    France realized how outnumbered they were and had only a small chance of winning. When french troops started moving out, british troops started doing the same and both countries shortly surrendered.
  • Russian Surrender

    Russian Surrender

    Shortly after the victory for Germany, Russia began pulling the rest of their soldiers off the frontlines of the invaded spaces and call to surrender any land already taken by Austria-Hungary and Germany
  • Post-war Reparations

    Post-war Reparations

    In no time, Germany made France and Russia sign agreement giving up military access, some colonies, naval transport and made them pay for any destruction.
  • Great Britain

    Great Britain

    Britains involvement was minimal, but requested to not be put under any agreement involving undergoing german rule. For this to happen they had to agree to help fund german military.
  • The Peoples Uprise

    Following the war, the native people of the countries under german rule began to protest and riot over the new powers.
  • Militarized Forces

    As more and more protest arose, Germany decided to send in military forces to deal with the people and get them in control. Many groups even set new regulations and restrictions on the majority of native people.
  • Russian Revolution

  • Soviet Union Formation

  • End of Russian Revolution

  • Soviet uprising

    The Soviet Union formation started uprisings in Russia posing a threat to german and Austrian rule
  • World War 2

    World War 2

    Soon after the Russian revolution, the USSR came into play. As they grew they ended up breaking the treaty from Germany by taking back territory and starting a new military. This lead to Germany, Austria-Hungary and Britain declaring war against Russia
  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland

  • Protecting Berlin

    Protecting Berlin

    As the war began, Russia quickly invaded eastern Germany and planned on perusing into Berlin. Germany quickly put their military on the frontlines as well as Austria-Hungary.
  • Spread of war

    Spread of war

    The threats of the USSR and spread of communism increased towards many countries in Europe, Africa, and North America. The threats only lead to more and more countries such as; the U.S, Japan, and China declaring war.
  • Lethal weapons

    Lethal weapons

    The USSR took advantage of the uprising in technology and staring developing nuclear weapons. The allied countries heard of the Russians plans to defeat them in the war, which caused them to join together and take the advance in technology into use
  • Pact of the World

    Pact of the World

    The U.S, Japan, China Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Great Britain agree to sign a pact stating that they should protect each other in the war but can't declare war on each other without going to war with the rest of the allies.
  • Nuclear threats

    The soviet union is believed to be planning a nuclear strike against countries in Europe and the U.S. once the allies find out about this they plan a bombing strike of believed Russian testing sites.
  • Final Strike

    After the threats from Russia, the U.S,Britain,Japan, Germany, and Austria Hungary send bombers, naval groups, and army troops into Russia in hopes of finally defeating the soviet union.
  • The End

    After a week of continuous bombing and fighting, Russia finally surrendered and signed a treaty giving away present and future military forces, and making them pay for basically everything

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