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Two international combinations of states that dominated the diplomatic history of Western Europe from 1882 until they came into armed conflict in World War I.
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Secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed on 20 May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I.
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Military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East, becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power.
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Lenin was the founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and the architect, builder, and first head of the Soviet Union
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The two were at constant conflict so they both decided to annex Boshia.
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A teenage sebian nationalist shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.
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After the assasination of the Duke, Austria Hungary declares war on the Serbians
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The Ottoman Empire was to enter World War I of the side of Germany when the Germans declared war on Russia
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The Schlieffen Plan was the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilise her forces near the German border.
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The government of Japan sends an ultimatum to Germany, wanting all German ships from Japanese and Chinese waters
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The battle of Marne was the first battle fought in World War I
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British ship the Lusitania was torpedoed by a german submarine without any warning
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The Battle of Verdun was one of the largest battles fought in World War
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A battle fought by the armies of the British and French Empires agianst the German Empire
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The text of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America.
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The lethal threat of the German U-boat submarine raises its head again, as Germany returns to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare it had previously suspended in response to pressure from the United States and other neutral countries.
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President Woodrow Wilson had severed diplomatic relations with germany
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During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place.
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President Wilson appeared before a joint session of Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Germany in order to "make the world safe for democracy." On April 4, Congress granted Wilson's request.
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A wing of social Democratic workers party siezed control of the government in Russia and becames the Main Political Power
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Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower.
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The Roman Catholics decided to shift their power within the German Empire
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President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14 point program for world peace
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In the city of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern-day Belarus near the Polish border, Russia signs a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War I.
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After realizing that Germany would lose the war, Wilhelm abdicated the throne
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Focusing on the collapse of the Habsburg Empire and the incidents in Austria in 1918/20 - are subdivided into four different periods and aspects
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World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations.
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Germany made reparations involving serveral payments plans, year of inflation and broken promises