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World War I

  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Sopie in Bosnia

  • Serbia asks Germany for assistance

  • Austria invaded Serbia

  • Russia mobilizes to Serbian front

  • Germany declares war with Russia

  • Germany declares war with France

  • Germany invades neutral Belgium, Britain declares war

  • Japan declares war in Germany

  • Russia declared war on Turkey

  • Britain and France declare war on Turkey

  • Introduction of weaponized chlorine gas

  • Attack on the Lusitania by a German U-Boat

  • Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • Germany begins unrestricted submarine warfare

  • Publication of the Zimmerman Note

  • Revolution begins in St. Petersburg, Russia

  • End of the Romanov rule in Russia

  • Wilson requests that the U.S. delcares war on Germany

  • The U.S. enters the Great War

  • Russian cease-fire treaty

  • Germany surrenders