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The Archduke of Austria,Franz Ferdinand, and his wife are on an offical visit to Sarajevo,Bosnia. Austria-Hungary demands money from Serbian for the death of their Archduke
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Germany crossed the border, expecting to quickly overtake the nation and attack France. Germany were not antipating civilian snipes and Belgian resistace- to retaliate, the Germans burned towns and executed civilans.
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Another Russian army had invaded Galicia, a region og Austria-Hungary. The Austria-Hungary forces were set up in the wrong place, allowing Russia to go deeper into enemy territory and force the Austria-Hungary army to retreat with significant casualites.
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Germany also had recently seized some of Japan's colonies on island in the pacific ocean. Japan declared war on Germany.
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German U boats enemies and worships. This costh the British more then 2,000 after the Germans attacked.
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A German Navai sqaud launched a suprise attacks on the Falkano Islands The Germans lost three ships and 2,000 men due to the attack.
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Serbia refuses to pay the reperations from Austria-Hungary after Austria-Hungary for the assassaination of the Archduke. Austria lauched on artillery shell on Serbia not paying Austria's demands.
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Russia allies with Serbia because they wanted to invade Austria-Hungray for launching an artillery shell on Serbia. Germany supports Austria- Hungray and says it will attack Russia if th if they make a move.
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Germany's Schlieffen Plan put most of their troops onthe Westren front. With the troops in France, Russia sent two armies into Germany
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Rejoined with the troops from France, Germany's army met up against the two Russian bands,which were operating separately, As the Russian's rereated they were surround by more German tropps.
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Over 125,000 Russian men were killed in this battle. In just the first month, Russia had lost more than 300, 000 of their soldiers.
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Germany and Russia had taken bold steps to open the war. Germany's schliffen plan began to unrave; as Russia proved to be more adversary then first thought.
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Germany took many hits on both the Western an d Eastern fronts Russia aslo suffered many causalities the first month of war
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The sent out a small group to draw the Germans into the war. The Germans lost three armies and 1,200 men.
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Both Brittanand Germany were not sure how to best use navies. Huge navy battles were not common occinence during the war.
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The Briitish and the Germans ignored this rule and the North Sea was littered with sea mines. No one wanted to go to the ocean because of the sea mines.