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Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo
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Kaiser William II promised German support for Austria against Serbia
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Austria declared war on Serbia
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Germany declared war on Russia
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The French were actually the first to use them in conflict, when they attempted to use tear gas against the German army.
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Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium.
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Britain declared war on Germany
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Russian army defeated at Tannenburg and Masurian Lakes.
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Battle of the Marne started
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First Battle of Ypres
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Turkey entered the war on Germany’s side. Trench warfare started to take over the Western Front.
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The German and British troops sang Christmas carols to each other across the lines and they didn't fight on that day.
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The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians
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The Red Baron was well known as Manfred von Richthofen. Mr. Richthofen was considered the top man of the war, he was credited with 80 air combat victories.
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The “Lusitania” was sunk by a German U-boat on the Outer Banks
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Italy declared war on Germany and Austria
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The Allies started the evacuation of Gallipoli
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Start of the Battle of Verdun
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The First World War and includes the greatest naval action of the war, at Jutland in 1916.
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Battle of Jutland
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Start of the Battle of the Somme
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First use en masse of tanks at the Somme
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British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.
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Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started
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The Russian Revolution of March 1917 put an end to the autocratic monarchy of imperial Russia and replaced it with a provisional government.
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Kiffin Rockwell was born in 1892 in Newport, Tennessee. The family soon moved to the home of his maternal grandfather in South Carolina, and later to Asheville, North Carolina.
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USA declared war on Germany
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America enter world war one
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Start of the Third Battle at Ypres
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Battle of Caporetto, the Italian Army was heavily defeated
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Britain launched a major offensive on the Western Front
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British tanks won a victory at Cambrai
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Armistice between Germany and Russia signed
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The "Fourteen Points" was a statement by United States President Woodrow Wilson declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany.
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The advance of the Allies was successful
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Turkey made peace
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The contributions of the United States military to the Allied effort were decisive.
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Austria made peace
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Kaiser William II abdicated
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Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One.
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The last man to die in world war one was a man named Henry Gunter, Gunter died at 10:59 and the war was supposed to be over at 11:00.
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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, to end the war.
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The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was over 37 million: over 16 million deaths and 20 million wounded.
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One estimate is that the Allies spent $147 billion on the war and the Central Powers only $61 billion. The U.S. $27 billion; among the Central Powers Germany spent $45 billion.
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World War One was a long, hard battle to fight. Many people died and it costed a lot of money for the countries, and many lifes were lost.