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the archduke was killed by the black fist which caused the austrians justice from serbia.
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Austria-Hungary repeatedly invades Serbia but is repeatedly repulsed
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Rhussia moves into Germany.
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Outbreak of war - Germany declares war on Russia
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Germany declares war on France
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US President Woodrow Wilson declares policy of US neutrality
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Battle of Tannenberg, which Russia loses; Germany's greatest success of the war on Eastern Front
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First Battle of Marne, halts German advance, resulting in stalemate and trench warfare
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The "race to the sea", trenches appear on September 15
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the turks joined the central powers.
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Unofficial Christmas truce declared by soldiers along the Western Front
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First germany and then the allies started using the poisonous gases.
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the allies snet masive force of British, Indian australian and new zealander troops to attempt to open up the strait.
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Allied forces make landings an Gallipoli, Turkey
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Allied amphibious attack on the Dardanelles and Gallipoli (initiated by Winston Churchill, who resigns as a consequence) ends with the Turkish siege of the Allied forces
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after 10 months and more than 200,000 casualties the allies finally withdrew from the dardenelles.
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the arabs had a nationalist revold against the ottomans.
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German attack on Verdun in the longest battle of the war, ultimately defended by the French at great cost to both sides
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Battle of Jutland, the biggest naval battle in history, ultimately without a clear victor
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Russian Brusilov offensive in Carpathia nearly knocks Austria-Hungary out of the war
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With British support (led by T.E. Lawrence), Hussein, grand sherif of Mecca, lead an Arab revolt against the Turks in the Hejaz
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Tanks introduced for the first time on the Somme battlefield by the British
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David Lloyd George replaces Asquith as British Prime Minister
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the war ended