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The First World War began due to the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sofia, beginning on this historic day when the United States joined the Allies when Austria declared war on Hungary and the United States joined the Allies.
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Hungary threatened with a military invasion of Serbia because they wanted Austria-Hungary to present rigid ultimatums on July 23, 1914, demanding things, and that all anti-Austrian propaganda within Serbia is suppressed and that Austria-Hungary stop conducts your own investigation into the Archduke's assassination.
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Germany declares war on France and invades neutral Belgium. Britain also sends an ultimatum rejecting the Germans to withdraw from Belgium. There are also allied nations against Germany that would eventually include Britain, Russia, Italy, Australia, New Zealand.
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It was the day that Russian troops entered the Russian Eastern Front to declare war, starting from August 17 to September 14 and the German army in Mons, Belgium, gives the Battle of the Borders in the first weeks of the First World War in the east.
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The day the British ship Lusitania was damaged, the cause of which resulted in 1,959 deaths, passengers and crew, 1,198 people drowned, including 128 Americans due to the maritime counter-attack by the Russias troops.
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It was an uprising of the Russian people against Tsar Nicholas II also Germany returns to unrestricted submarine warfare stopped after the sinking of the Lusitania
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Allan Forbes spent much of the warfighting in Frances, he sent many letters to his parents recounting some of his experiences in the trenches. After they spent several days in the trenches and their participation in the war, commander john J.persling wrote him a letter telling him that he was part of one of the people to be part of a great victory, so he gave his thesis of its effectiveness and value.
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The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most serious in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. where the virus originated.
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The American Expeditionary Forces with General John J. Pershing launched their first major offensive in Europe as an independent army. The US-led attack occurred on the Saint-Mihiel salient, a triangular area of land between Verdun and Nancy occupied by the German army since the fall of 1914.
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The allied forces begin the attack on Meuse-Argonne and the final offensive of the war.
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On this day, Germany signs the Armistice in Compiègne, ending the First World War and giving peace to the countries after more than four years of horrible fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the weapons on the western front fell silent.
