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Austria's Archduke was shot.
Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in Sarajevo and the Austrians blamed Serbia. -
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The first World War
It was an armed confrontation between European countries and later also the United States. It lasted four years and four months. It was one of the wars that involved as many soldiers since participated around 70 million of military. -
Austria declares war on Serbia
Austria declares war on Serbia putting as an excuse the murder of Archduke Ferdinand, the future successor to the Austro-Hungarian throne. -
Jean Jaurès.
philosopher and socialist politician. He oppossed imperialism and defended pacifism befores FWW. He was a firm advocate of the second international socialist movement. He defended democracy and the best way to improve the living and working conditions of the workers. He was murdered by a nacionalist fanatic. -
Germany declares war on Russia.
Germany declares war on Russia putting the mobilization of it's soldiers as an excuse. -
Germany declares war on France.
Germany declares war on France putting as an excuse the mobilization of their troops. -
Britain declares war on Germany.
Britain declares war on Germany; using as an excuse the German invasion of Belgium, which had promised to defend. -
Battle of Tannenberg.
Russia and Germany faced at the beginning of the First World War near the town of Allenstein in East Prussia. This confrontation turned out to be one of the most decisive battles of the entire Great War, and took place from 26 to 30 August 1914. The battle resulted in the almost total annihilation of the second Russian army, and also part of the first Russian army, which left very bad war situation in Russia until spring. -
Battle of Marne.
In late August 1914, all Allied forces were on the western front, while the Germans were approaching the Marne, threatening to encircle the enemy forces by the west. Thanks to the first airplanes, which made their appearance in the military field as simple elements of observation, the French realized the threat. In addition, a German radio transmission was detected by the antenna twenty-four meters placed next to the Eiffel Tower. -
Battle of the Masurian Lakes
After the great victory at Tannenberg Ludendorff then turned against the first Army Rennenkampf who, like him, had received reinforcements. Ludendorff concentrated the main forces on the left flank weak Rennenkampf, hoping to repeat the maneuver Tannenberg; isolate that section of the center and then surround this from the rear. Although the Germans entered Russian territory on September 20, they suffered the first setbacks and 25 rejected a Russian counteroffensive. -
Battle of Gallipoli.
The British had approximately 250,000 casualties, including Australians and New Zealanders of the ANZAC troops. The French suffered about 50,000 casualties. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Empire withstood 250,000 casualties. Losses in ships and the failure of the operation carried ahead resignation as its main promoter; Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, returning to active service in the British Army. -
Woodrow Wilson.
Lawyer and democratic politician. He was the 28th president of the United States. Wilson mainted the American neutrality after the outbreak of FWW. But the sinking of American shipping by Germans, led Wilson to bring the US into the war in April 1917. In January 1918 Wilson explained his 14 points, which he believed should form the basis of this peace settlements in Europe. -
Sinking of Lusitania.
The Lusitania was identified and torpedoed by a U-boat submarine U-20 sank in 18 minutes, close to Cape Old Head of Kinsale, killing 1,198 people and leaving 761 survivors. The sinking caused public opinion in many countries is overwhelmingly opposed to Germany, contributing to the US entry into the war, and became a symbol of military recruitment campaigns. -
Battle of Verdun.
The Battle of Verdun was the longest battle of the First World War and the second bloodiest after the Battle of the Somme. In it the French and German armies fought between February 21 and December 19, 1916, around Verdun, in northeastern France. The result was a quarter of a million dead and about half a million wounded from both sides. The battle was popularized by the famous "They shall not pass!" Spoken by the French commander Robert Nivelle. -
Battle of the Somme.
The Battle of the Somme in 1916 was one of the longest and bloodiest of World War II, with more than a million casualties on both sides. British and French forces tried to break through the German lines along a front of forty kilometers north and south of the River Somme in northern France. The main purpose of the battle was to distract the German troops from the Battle of Verdun; however, the casualties of the Battle of the Somme ended up being higher. -
US goes to war
German policy to re-attack with US submarines and ships without warning. The most important case of shipwrecks had been perpetrated in 1915, when a German submarine fired torpedoes without warning the RMS Lusitania, a British ship dedicated to passenger transport. As a result of the attack, which occurred off the Irish coast, killed 1198 people, many of them Americans and the ship made the New York-Liverpool route. -
Russian Revolution.
Coup that gave the Bolsheviks (Russian revolutionary group) against the Russian government. The leader of the Bolsheviks was Vladimir Lennin. His party promised Russian citizens that if they won would abandon war as the end ended up winning had no other choice but to get out of the war. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Peace of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918 in the Belarusian city of Brest-Litovsk (then under Russian sovereignty, current Brest) between the German Empire, Bulgaria, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Empire Ottoman and Soviet Russia. In the treaty, Russia renounced several territories and also central empires. -
Austria signed the armistice.
The Padua armistice was signed the Austro-Hungarian Empire with the triple Entente at the end of the First World War in the Italian city of the same name on November 3, 1918. -
Germany signed an armistice
The Armistice of November 11, 1918, also known as Armistice Compiegne, was a treaty signed on November 11, 1918 at 11 am, between the Allies and the German Empire in the car of a train in the forest Compiegne, in order to end hostilities on the Western Front of the First World War.
