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Gavrilo Principle fires two shots to kill the archduke and his wife which sparks the first world war
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo
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Belgium's ports were close to the British coast and German control of Belgium would have been seen as a serious threat to Britain. I
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Canada was a self-governing dominion of the British Empire, but it did not control its own foreign affairs
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Reacting to the Austrian attack on Serbia, Russia begins full mobilisation of its troops.
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Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a young Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Baron Giesl von Gieslingen, ambassador of the Austro-Hungarian
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Austro-Hungarian Empire to Serbia, delivers an ultimatum to the Serbian foreign
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Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia,
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Germany honours it's alliance with Austria-Hungary and declares war on Russia in support.
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Reacting to the Austrian attack on Serbia, Russia begins full mobilization of its troops
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Reacting to the Austrian attack on Serbia, Russia begins full mobilization of its troops
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The Schrieffer Plan concentrated German forces in the west for an attack on Russia's ally France.
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Germany declares war on France, and invades neutral Belgium. Britain then sends an ultimatum, rejected by the Germans, to withdraw from Belgium.
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The Arrest of Gavrilo Princip
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Before the Germans declared war on France, they needed free passage across Belgium.
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Flemish town of Ypres in western Belgium after the First Battle of Ypres the previous autumn.
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The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and France against the German Empire.
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The Battle of Vimy Ridge was part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War.
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One of the main issues with a mandatory military service in Canada is the political viability of such a program
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The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire
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Germany had formally surrendered on the 11th off November and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated.
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The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I
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after German forces invaded Poland.
