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A month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie the Austro-Hungarian government declares war on Serbia. Immediately, and within a period of six days, European countries declare war upon one another. -
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Tsar Nicholas the 2nd ordered a general mobilization of the Russian army on 4/30/1914. Two days later, Germany declared war on Russia. -
He died he gone no more. My guy can't move. -
The Schlieffen Plan drawn up in 1905 was the German army's answer to its central strategic problem: how to win a war on two fronts, against France in the west and Russia in the east. -
Took place at the start of World War 1 in September of 1914. Marked the second defeat of the Russian Army at the hands of Germans. -
A German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children on board, 1,195 perished, including 123 Americans. -
The German Chief of General Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn to secure victory for Germany on the Western Front. The aim was to crush the French army before the Allies grew in strength through the full deployment of British forces. -
Sometime over the course of the night and the early morning of December 29-30, 1916, Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, a self-proclaimed holy man, is murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over the royal family. -
Germans forced launched 'Operation Friedenstrum', a 35-mile wide offensive designed to capture Reims and encroach on Paris. -
The Treaty that ended Russia's partake in the First World War. Was signed on the 3rd of March in 1918. -
After more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I. -
Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of the U.S. The Paris Peace Conference was an international meeting convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. -
The first intergovernmental organization to establish "To promote international cooperation and to achieve peace and security". It is often referred to as the "Predecessor" of the united states. -
Following the Japanese bombing of the Pear Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan. Three days, later after Germany and Italy declared war on it, the United states became fully engaged in the Second World War 2.