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heir to the Austrian throne, visitied the Bosnian Sarajevo. As the royal entourage drove through the city, Serbian nationalist Gavrill Princip steped from the crowed and shot arch duke and his wife sophie.
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On July 28, 1914, one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War.
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Germany invaded Belguim, following a strategy known as the schileffen plan. this plan called for a holding action against Russia, combined with a qucik drive through Belguim to Paris; after France fall the two German armies would defeat Russia.
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The Battle of the Frontiers was a series of battles fought along the eastern frontier of France and in southern Belgium shortly after the outbreak of WW1.
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The battle was part of the very first Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia.
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On August 26, 1914, the German 8th Army, under the leadership of Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, strikes with lethal force against the advancing Russian 2nd Army, led by General Aleksandr Samsonov, in East Russia during the opening weeks of the First World War.
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The Battle of Mons was the last of 4 "Battles of the Frontiers" that took place over as many days on the Western Front between Allied and German forces in the opening month of WW1.
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Allies stopped German advance on Paris, also farthest Advance
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A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England.
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After an unsuccessful campaign at the Gallipoli Peninsula the Allied forces retreat the shore line. Over the next 10-15 days the allied forces leave the peninsula, suffering no casualties, this could be possibly thought of as the most successful part of the Gallipoli campaign.
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The Battle of Verdun, the longest engagement of World War I, ends on this day after ten months and close to a million total casualties suffered by German and French troops.
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This battle off Denmark’s North Sea coast was the only major naval surface engagement of WW1.
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The Battle of the Somme was the battle that symbolised the horrors of warfare in World War One.
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On April 6, 1917, the United States Congress declared war upon the Germans.
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Shipping losses had been cut in half. US navy also helped lay a 230 mile barrier of mines across the North Sea to scotland to Norway.
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General Erich Ludendorff formally ends "Operation Michael," the first stage of the final major German offensive of WW!.
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At 11 o'clock in the morning of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the First World War--known at the time as the Great War--ended.
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WW1 officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919
