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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
eir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on 28 June 1914, set in train a series of diplomatic events that led impossible to prevent the outbreak of war in Europe at the end of July 1914. -
Austria declares war on Serbia
The Royal Serbian Government not having answered in a satisfactory manner the note of July 23, 1914, presented by the Austro-Hungarian Minister at Belgrade, of their rights and interests, then Austria-Hungary consequently considers war with Serbia. -
Beginning of Trench Warfare
The First World War was typified however by its lack of movement, the years of stalemate exemplified on the Western Front from autumn 1914 until spring 1918. -
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First Battle of the Marne
With the outcome bringing to an end the war of movement that had dominated the First World War since the beginning of August. -
First Battle of the Dardanelles
Winston Churchill having first Lord of the Admiralty succeeded in securing War Cabinet backing for action in the Dardanelles, he lost no time in a piece of equipment, a blueprint for a purely naval bombardment of the Dardanelles Straits. -
Second Battle of the Dardanelles
Churchill, impatient for action, demanded that Sir Sackville Carden - the British naval commander in the Mediterranean - provide him with a proposal for a naval-only offensive upon the Straits. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Lusitania was at New York, being loaded with meat, medical supplies, copper, cheese, oil and machinery, but she was also secretly being loaded with military weapons for Britain for the war. That same day, Kapitänleutnant Walter Schwieger was ordered to take his U-boat-20 German submarine to the northern tip of Great Britain, then back down south on the Atlantic side and then east to the Irish Channel to destroy ships going to and from Liverpool, England. -
Battle of the Somme
Battle of the Somme is famous chiefly on account of the loss of 58,000 British troops one third of them killed on the first day of the battle. -
Battle of Verdun
First World War, has its roots in a letter sent by the German Chief of Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, to the Kaiser, Wilhelm II, on Christmas Day. n his letter to the Kaiser, Falkenhayn argued that the key to winning the war lay not on the Eastern Front, against Russia - whom he believed was on the point of revolution and subsequent withdrawal from the war - but on the Western Front. -
Germany begins unrestricted warfare
The use of unrestricted submarine warfare was announced by Germany, The use of unrestricted submarine warfare was to have a major impact on World War One as it was one of the main reasons why America joined the war. -
US declares war on Germany
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson outlined the case for declaring war upon Germany in a speech to the joint houses of Congress. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of the war between Russia and Germany. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
he Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolution and other events in Russia. The treaty was signed at the vast Versailles Palace near Paris - hence its title - between Germany and the Allies. -
World War I ends
In the context of the First World War 'the armistice' is generally referred to in context of the agreement between the Germans and the Allies to end the war.
