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The first modern Olympic games were held in Athens Greece. 14 countries participated in the games. This is significant to WWl because the games were keeping the peace between countries.
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On June 28, Gavrilo Princip, a member of a Serbian terrorist group, killed Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophie at Sarajevo. The assassination triggered World War l because Ferdinand's death shocked the world and people were angry.
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Kaiser William ll promised German support for Austria against Serbia. This was significant to the war because the kaiser was trying to keep Germany as an ally.
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After the assasination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, tensions arose from surrounding countries and eventually broke into the first world war.
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The Ottoman Empire joins the Central Powers to form the Triple Alliance with the signing of the Turco-German Alliance.
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The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army and the suicide of its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov.
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Turkey entered the war on October 28th with the bombings of Russian Black Sea ports.
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The first zeppelin raid was used against Britain. After the raid, the Blitz spirit was born.
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The Germans shocked the Allies by firing 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Germany. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans and it devastated the Allied line.
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The sinking of the British line Lusitania in 1915, was part of Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. The incident was featured in propaganda posters as evidence of German brutality.
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Lloyd George was a liberal British statesman. He introduced health and unemployment benefits with the National Security Act of 1911.
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The United States declared war on Germany just hours after Germany declared war on the U.S following the Japanese attacks at Pearl Harbor.
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Turkish troops moved out of the region because of the oncoming British. This was not a brutal capture, it was a peaceful negotiation.
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Russia withdrew from WWl soon after the October Revolution and the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard.
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Germany formally surrendered and all nations aggreed to stop fighting. Germany and the Allied Nations, which included Britain, France, Italy and Russia, signed the Treaty of Versailles that ended the war.
