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panama canal opens
panama canal opens goes back almost to the earliest explore of the americans -
assassination of archduke franz ferdinand
two shots fired on surajevo street on a sunny moring set in motion a seires of events that shaped the world we live in today -
WWI Begins
The assassination of the archduke franz ferdinand of austria was that triggered the WWI -
first battle of the marne
Was conducted between 6-12 sep 1914, with the outcome bringing to an end the war of movement that had dominated the first war since the beginning of august. -
armenian massacre
The day when ottoman authorities arrested some 250 armenian intellectuals and community leaders in constantinople. -
The gallipoli campaign begins
Was a WWI campagin that took place on the gallipoli peninsula in the ottoman empire between 25 april 1915 and 9 january 1916. -
sinking of the lusitania
occurred during the first world war, as germany waged sub warfare agiant the uk and ireland -
battle of verdun
this was cause over an estmated 700,000 casualities.( dead, wounded, and missing) -
Battle of the somme
the battle of somme was the battle that symbolised the horrors of warefare in the WWI -
zimmerman telegram is intercepted
the zimmerman telegram was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the german empire for mexico to join the central powers, in the us entering WWI on the side of the entente power. -
germany renturns to unrestricted submarine warfare
the use of unrestricted submaire warfare was to have a major impact on WWI as it was one of the main reason why amreicans joined the war. -
communists seize power in russia
russia czar nicholas II issues a proclamation of abdication under duress on both his behalf and on the behalf of his young son -
U.S. declaration of war
the world must be made safe for demcracy, us presidentg woodrow wilson proclaims on the day 1917, as he appears before congress to ask for declaration of war againt germany -
russia pulls out of WW!
russia and germans signed an armistice agreement for 28 days -
treaty of best litovsk signed
That was a peace treaty between the new bolshevik goverment of russia and the central powers which ended russia participation in WWI -
End of WWI
WW1 was finally over. this first global conflict had claimed from 9 million to 13 million lives and caused unprecedented damage, at june 28 1918. -
second battle of the marne
Near the marne river in the champagne region of france , the germans begin what would be their final offensive push of WWI -
Czar nicholas steps down fom power
just five years later the Russian czar would be forced to abdicate, ending 300 years of Romanov rule and making Nicholas the final member of his family to act as czar. -
Armistice signed
the final allied pushed toward the german border, as the allied advanced the alliance between the central powers began to collapse. -
kaiser wilhelm II steps down
wilhelm was forced to step down and all of his power were taken away from him
