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World War I
Andrew Franz Ferdinand, heir to Austrias-Hungary's throne, and his wife, sophie,are assasinated by a serbian nationlist while the couple were visitig Savajero, Bosnia. -
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World War I
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia to respond after the shooting. -
US Proclaims Neutrality
As World War I erupts in Europe, President Woodrow Wilson formally proclaims the neutrality of the United States, a position that a vast majority of Americans favored, on August 4, 1914. -
Schlieffen Plan
The Schlieffen Plan was the German General Staff's early 20th-century overall strategic plan for victory in a possible future war in which the German Empire might find itself fighting on two fronts: France to the west and Russia to the east. -
Trench Warfare
Military tactics before World War I had failed to keep pace with advances in technology. These advances allowed for impressive defence systems, which old military tactics could not break through for most of the war. Barbed wire was a significant hindrance to massed infantry advances. Artillery, vastly more lethal than in the 1870s, coupled with machine guns, made crossing open ground extremely difficult. -
Russia Declared war on Turkey
Russia declared war on Turkey because Turkey helped Germany do a naval bombard of Russia. -
Battle of Kolubara
Was a major victory for Serbia over the Austro-Hungarian armies during World War I. The Austro-Hungarian armies were routed, and driven back across the Serbian border. -
Second Battle of Yrpes
Posion gas was used for the first time during battle.The gas was used to clear out trenches during trench warfare. -
Lusitania
Germany sparked an international diplomatic crisis when one of its submarines mistakenly sank a French cross-channel ferry believing it instead to be a minelayer.,The ensuing crisis stemmed from the 25 American civilian casualties (out of a total of 80 casualties, including 50 fatalities) who were on board the Sussex. -
Battle of Mojkovac
The fighting culminated on 6 January 1916, when a small army of less than 6,500 Montenegrin soldiers took a stand against the Austro-Hungarian advance in the village of Mojkovac, in Northern Montenegro. -
Battle of Verdun
was fought from 21 February – 18 December 1916 during the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies, on hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. The German Fifth Army attacked the defences of the Région Fortifiée de Verdun and the Second Army on the right bank of the Meuse, intending rapidly to capture the Meuse Heights from which Verdun could be overlooked and bombarded with observed artillery fire. -
Battle of Jutland
Was a naval battle fought by the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet against the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet during the First World War.It was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the war. It was only the third-ever fleet action between steel battleships. -
USA Joins The World War I
After the influence of the Lusitana America finally got its nose in the war dropping troops off in France and other parts of Europe. -
Battle of Caporetto
Austro-Hungarian forces, reinforced by German units, were able to break into the Italian front line and rout the Italian army, which had practically no mobile reserves. The battle was a demonstration of the effectiveness of the use of stormtroopers and the infiltration tactics. The use of poison gas by the Germans played a key role in the collapse of the Italian Second Army. -
Germany signed Armistice
The armistice between the Allies and Germany was an agreement that ended the fighting in the First World War. It went into effect at 11 am on 11 November 1918, and marked a victory for the Allies and a complete defeat for Germany, although not technically a surrender.
