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Aliance between Austro-Hangary, Germany, and Italy that Bismark created because he wanted to take away France's allies. Germany was threatened by France.
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Alliance between Britain, France and Russia. Rival alliance with the triple alliance.
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The Austrian Archduke and his wife Sophie, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist named Gavrilo Princip who was a member of the black hand.
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Austria presented Serbia with an ultimatum containing numerous demands. Serbia only agreed to some of these demands and offered to negotiate on others. Austria however, was fed up and didn't want to negotiate.
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Austria rejected Serbias offer to the ultimatum and declared war.
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In mid-August of 1914 the battle lines in Europe we clearly drawn and the Central Powers and the Allies went to war.
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The Schfillen Plan was created by Gemrnay during the beggining of the war and the idea was to quickly defeat France and then switch quickly to the East and deafeat Russia. The plan eventually failed because Germany did not deafeat France quick enough, and they were stuck fighting a two front war.
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This area was a stretch of battlefield along the front between Germany and Russia.
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In early 1915, trench warfare was developed and adopted because of stalemates between opposing sides.
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This campaign was a effort to take Dardanelles strait. This effort began in Febuary of 1915 and ended in December.
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Two events that triggered the U.S. to join WWI opposing Germany was the sinking of the Lusitania, which killed 200 American citiezens, and the Zimmerman note.
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WWI soon after it's start became a "total war". This is when a country devotes all their resources and effort to a war. Countries started rationing items that were needed for the war effort and controlled what factories manufactured.
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Officials intercepted a telegram going to Mexico from Germany asking Mexico to join Germany in their war effort, and in return they would regain Mexico's lost land form the U.S. This event was the last straw for America and got them to join in WWI.
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President Wilson, on April 2 of 1917, asked Congress to declare war on Germany for the events that had taken place and to join the Allies against the Central Powers.
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The Allies, soon after the U.S. joining, won the war over Germany and the Centeral Powers. Germany and France signed a armistice to stop the fighting and end the war in a railway car near Paris.