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Titanic Sinks
The Titanic sinks at 2am -
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World War I
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
the assassination of Archduke Franz was what lead to the beginning of WWI -
WWI begins
WWI begins all because of The Austro-Hungarian Empire when they declared war on Serbia. then which they get their allies invovled and little events like the sinking of ships in neutral waters then made it become a world war. -
Panama Canal opens
helped ships navigate through the oceans. -
First Battle of the Marne
the french won the war with Germany by ruining their plan that supposedly would've made them won -
The Gallipoli campaign begins
the effort to take the dardanelles strait. the plan was to attack the region in the ottoman empire that was was a gate strait to the ottoman empire -
Sinking of the Lusitania
the sinking of the Lusitania was one of the events that lead to WWI because it had 128 U.S. citizens on board when the boat was bombed -
Armenian Massacre
Ottoman Turks killed thousands of Armenians who wanted independence from the Ottoman Empire. Also, in the Beginning of WWI another 600,000 Armenians were killed either because of starvation or killed by the ottomans -
Battle of Verdun
The Germans lanched a massive attack on the French and each side lost more than 300,000 men. -
Battle of the Somme
The British came to help the French attack the Germans and used a tank to attack the Germans -
Zimmerman telegram
a telegram sent to mexico promising back land that the U.S. had took over -
Germany returns to Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
a way the brought the United States into WWI -
Czar Nicholas steps down from power
Czar put Russia in three wars when he was in power and due to a large part of food shortages fuel Czar was forced to step down -
Russia pulls out of WWI
War related shortages made them pull out of the war. -
U.S. declaration of war
The U.S. is brought into the war because of Germany killing U.S. citizens in ships -
League of Nations
help keep peace among nations and helped also end WWI -
prohibition
to limit the comsuption of alcohol to the public and the transportation of it -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed
Russia lost Urkaine, Finland, Polish & Baltic provinces also the Soviet Union eventually regained its territory lost except FInland & Poland. -
Second Battle of the Marne
last turning point in the war that led to allied victory and was also the last major German attack of the war. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II steps down
Kaiser stepping down was a reason that helped the war come to an end -
Armistice signed
lead the end of WWI -
End of WWI
The World War finally came to an end
