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World War I

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  • Austria-Hungary Declares War on Serbia

    Austria-Hungary Declares War on Serbia
    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, who was killed in Sarajevo along with his wife Duchess Sophie by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip. ... Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. Russia mobilizes.

  • archduke killed

    archduke killed
    franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia and, from 1896 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

  • First use of gas as a weapon by the Germans

    First use of gas as a weapon by the Germans
    On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line.

  • sinking of the lusitania

    The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany.

  • wilson reelected; pledged american neutrality

    wilson wanted to stay out of the war by pledging american neutrality

  • Zimmermann Note

    The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.

  • U.S declares war

    the us declared war because of the luistaina

  • Bolsheviks led by lenin overthrow Russian goverment

    On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

  • the war ends

    The horrible world war was over

  • Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.