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The Archduke was visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia. During his trip, him and his wife were both killed by a Serbian nationalist/terrorist named Gavrilo Princip.
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27,000 french soilders die on this day in an offensive thrust to the east of Paris towards the German boarders.
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The very first trenches of the Western Front are dug.
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War became a total war due to German Zeppelin air raip towards England.
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Allies began the 9 month battle for the Turkish Penninsula of Gallipoli.
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British first uses poison gas in Loos. Shifting winds end up killing 60,000 British soilders.
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Allies begin to withdrawl troops from Gallipoli.
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Woodrow Wilson publically warns Germany not to continue of restricted Submarine Warfare.
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President Wilson asks for congress approval to declare war on Germany.
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Wilson declares 14 points using as the path towards permanent world peace.
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Demobilization of the armies. Many return home.
