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When Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy formed an Triple Alliance aggreeing to help eachother if one country was to go to war.
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Germany joins Russia in an alliance to remove another option for France to ally with.
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Germany allows Russia's alliance with them to expire therefore forcing Russia to ally with France.
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Germans foreign policy was changed because Wilhelm II did not want to share his power with any other nation. Therefore forcing Bismarck to resign.
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This was good for Russia and France, but dangerous for Germany. Germany would then be forced to fight in a war on its eastern and western borders.
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Germany built up their Naval forces which had threatened BNritain to form and ally with France.
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Britain created an alliance with France and Russia to constitue a powerful counterweight to the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Itlay.
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Franz Ferdinand was going with his wife Sophia to visit Serbia for he was the heir. He knew the trip would be dangerous, but he did not know that the Serbs would take it so offensivley. They planned to kill Ferdinand with a bomb but that tatic failed, when one of his guards told him he had to flee the city, on his way out Gavrilo Princip was waiting at a corner where he there shot both Sophia and Franz and were killed.
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Germany counterattacked the Russians at Tannenberg. During the four- day battle, the Germans pushed the invading Russian army to retreat. More than 30,000 Russian soldiers were killed.
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Russia started to mobilize along the German border. Russia's mobilization threatened Germany that forced them to declare war.
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The Schlieffen plan had been in effect since 1897, it meant that Germant would be at war with France and Russia during the same time. They thought France would be easy to capture but Russia would be a struggle, but they were wrong when Russia started to modilize their army while France didnt which put them in a panic to attack France.
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War was declared on Germany by Britain in a response to the German invasion of Belgium. Britain asked the ambassadors of both France and Germany if they would like to keep Beligum neutral, France agreed but Germany did not. This upset Britain, making war erupt.
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The first World War battle that lasted through the 12th of September. The battle effectively ended the month long German offensive that opened the war. The counterattack of France and Britain along the Marne River forced the German Imperial Army to abandon its push on Paris.
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The Ottoman Empire officially entered World War I on 28 October 1914 with the bombing of Russian Black Sea ports. Thery joined the war because of the German pressure.
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the Austrians counter the Russians with German assistance at the Battle of Limanowa. This stopped the Russians plans to invade Germany by going through Austria-Hungary.
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Was a British and French plan to capture the Ottoman capital of Istanbul (Constantinople) and to have a secure sea route to Russia. This was a failure.
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Italy enterend the war on April 26 as part of the Triple Entente
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Germany used U-boats to sink the Lusitania ship in fear that it was carrying war materials to aid the allied powers.This attack led to the U.S.A joining the war.
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Germany thought that this war tatic would keep America out of war, when it initially made them join. This type of fighting worked for a while, till America joined the war to help their alliances that they had made.
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Germany tried to get Mexico to attack the U.S. by bribing them by promising the return of territory lost during the Mexican-American War. Luckily the U.S. had intercepted the telegram.
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The U.S. tried to stay neutral from World War even after they were attacked by Germany, U.S. tried to make an agreement with them to stop submarine warfare but they continued. It was the final straw once the armed U.S. steamer Aztec was torpedoed, which killed many troops. The next day Wilson stood before congress and delivered his message to join war.
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Russia had to be removed from the war because of the lack of food and supplies war was causing the country. Vladimir Lenin had an armistice signed with the Central Powers.
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This treaty provided relief to the Bolsheviks, who were busy fighting in the Russian Civil War. It gave the independence to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania.
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The second battle of the Marne was the last major German attack on the Western Front.The German attack failed when an allied counterattack led by France overwhelmed the German.
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Wilhelm II was forced to step down from power there fore Germany declared itself a republic. An Armistice was signed making Germany no longer the most powerful nation.
