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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand the heir to the Austria-Hungary throne was assassinated, along with his wife Sophie while visitng Sarajevo in Serbia. They were killed by the Black Hand because the Archduke was preventing Serbia from becoming independent. -
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World War I
This is the time from the very cause of the war, until the very end of the war. -
Start of World War I
After the assassination, Austria Hungary gave Serbia an ultimatum hoping to stamp its authority on the country. They wanted to crush Serbia's nationalist movement and impose their influences onto the region as well as take over the Balkans. When Serbia declined, Austria-Hungary went in for war. Serbia had treaties with other countries bringing them into the war to help fight. Austria-Hungary did the same, and soon enough The Great War began. -
US Joins the War
Some of the reasons why the United States joined the war was because of submarine warefare. Over a course of several years Germans sunk US boats. The Germans sunk a crusie ship called Lusitania, killing 128 Americans. Also the British intercepted a German message to Mexico saying that if Mexico joined the war and helped, Germans would give back land that was rightfully theirs (New Mexico, Texas and Arizona.) The United States heard of this and finally declared war. -
Russia Exits the War
Russia was having a lot of problems within its own country and with the war. They were losing many people of the war and losing a lot of land. They were gaining nothing from the war. This caused food shortages at home, and their homeland was being destroyed. Revolutions started within their own country, so they were fighting each other as well as their enemy. They decided they needed to fix things at home first. -
End of World War I
Allied armies kept pushing forward, and the Central Powers began to collapse. One by one the Central Powers were signing armistices and peace treaties. Germany began to crumble from within. On Novemeber 11, all the fighting stopped and the war was over. -
Treaty of Versailles 1919
The war fighting had stopped in November, but it took awhile for a peace treaty to be agreed. The Treaty of Versailles was harsh. Germany was forced to claim as the cause of the war, and forced to pay a tremendous amount of money to repair damages. Germany had land taken away from them and were forced to cut down on their military. This angered Germany, and became the cause for the next World War.
