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Bismarck formed Triple Alliance with Italy and Austria-Hungary. He knew that France longed to avenge its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Bismarck was sure that France would not attack Germany without help.
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They succeeded in taking large area of land away from Turkish control. The bloody wars raised tensions to a fever pitch
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Assassination of ArchdukeGavirilo Princip, a memeber of a Serbian terrorist group killes Austrian Archduke Francis and his wife Sophie. The assasinations triggered World War I.
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Outraged by invasion of Belgium, Britain declares wawr on Germany.
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poison gas
Germany and then the Allies began using another new weapon. It blinded or choked victims. Poison gas remained one of the most dreaded hazards of the war. -
ALmost 1,200 passengers were killed, including 128 Americans. President Woodrow Wilson threatened to cut off diplomatic relations with Germany.
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This event erupted into a revolution that brought down the Russian momarchy.
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U.S gets involved in World War I.
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The British and French forces helped stop the Central Powers' advance into Italy.
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Wilson hoped he had a peacemaker and issued the Fourteen Points. He urged the creation of a "general association of nations" to keep the peace in the future.
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Leinin signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany. The treaty ended Russian participation in World War I.
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At 11 a.m. the Great War at last came to an end.
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The ALlies ordered representatives of the new German Republic to sign the treaty thet had drawn up at Versailles. Which would later on help spark an even deadlier war world
