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Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
A young Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Taking place against a backdrop of escalating tensions in the Balkans, the assassination set off a chain of events that would lead to the start of World War I barely one month later. -
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World War I
Russia=Nicholas II/ United Kingdom=George V/Serbia=Peter I/Belgium=Albert I of Belgium/Italy=Victor Emmanuel III / United States of America=Woodrow Wilson/ Japan=Emperor Taishō/ Brazil=Venceslau Bras / France=Raymond Poincaré / Germany= Kaiser Willhelm II / just to name a few -
Battle of Verdun
The longest single battle of WWI
Place: Verdun-sur-Meuse, France
Winner: Despite horrendous losses, a French vctory -
Battle of Jutland
This led to the Royal Navy tightening it's grip with a naval blockade, thus preventing any supplies of food, ammunition, raw materials and other trade goods reaching Germany from it's colonies or other outside sources.
Place: North Sea, near Denmark
Winner: Tactically inconclusive; British dominance of the North Sea maintained -
The Battle of the Somme
Place: Somme River, north-central Somme and southeastern Pas-de-Calais Départements, France
Winner: The Allies -
America Joins the War
Although reluctant to enter, American joined WWI. This was primarily due to unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann telegram. -
The Battle of Cambrai
Place: Cambrai, France
Winner: Stalemate -
Fifth Battle of Ypres
Place: Ypres, Belgium to Ghent, Belgium
Winner: The Allies -
Treaty of Versailles
Basically, it incorporated an acceptance of Germany's guilt in causing the war; give and return land; German reparations of £6,600 million; limitation of Germany's army to 100,000 men with no conscription, no tanks, no heavy artillery, no poison-gas supplies, no aircraft and no airships; just to name a few
