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Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was visiting the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia. He and his wife were travelling in an open car with very little security to guard them. They travelled in this car along the main road when a Serbian nationalist called Nedjelko Cabrinovic threw a bomb at the car. It rolled off the back of the vehicle and missed the Archduke. They kept travelling long and archduke's procession took a wrong turn. Gavrilo Princip fired his gun into the car which ended up shooting Franz Ferdinand -
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World War One Timeline
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Declared War
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia over the assination of Franz Ferdinand. -
Germany declared
Germany declared war on Russia -
Germany declared
Germany declared war on France -
Britian declared
Britian declared war on Germant -
First Battle of Marne
It was an offensive by the French army and the British Expeditionary Force against the Germans who had recently invaded Belgium and France. The Germans wanted to walk five armies through Belgium and straight to France. The Belgians began to fight the German armies who were advancing into France. With the French and British forces in withdraw or on the border stretch the Germans planned to enclose the allied forces on the east and west border, then take over Paris. -
First Battle of Ypres
First Battle of Ypres happened in autumn of 1914, during the war lots of offensives and defensives were fought alone the frontline called the Battle of Ypres. British troops entered Ypres and were unaware of the size of the German force advancing on the town. Fierce fighting took place around the town and neither the British nor the Germans could claim to control the area. -
Turkey
Turkey enters the war -
Second Battle of Ypres
The Second Battle of Ypres was the only major attack launched by the German forces on the Western Front, as Falkenhayn preferred to concentrate German efforts against the Russians on the Eastern Front -
Gallipoli
After arrivng at Gallipoli it was only shortly after the landing at Anzac Cover that they had found out that an error had been made and that the landing should have been made on Brighton Beach, south of Anzac Cove. -
Sinking of Lusitania
Lusitania was a British ocean liner torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. -
ANZACS attack
The ANZACS attacked the Turkish because they thought they were using‘explosive bullets’ which caused terrible wounds to use againest people. -
Gallipoli Backfire
Allied offensive againest Gallipoli backfired and troops were evacuated. -
Battle of Verdun
German comander Falkenhayn decided to launch an offensive againestthe fortress town of Verdun. -
Third Battle of Verdun
From 10 May German operations were limited to local attacks, either in reply to French counter-attacks or attempts to take points of tactical value -
Battle of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland was a war of the sea with ships such as the British Grand Fleet and who were fightening against the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet. -
The Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme was a battle for the Allied to punch a hole through the German frontline and attempt to stop the war. -
David Lloyd George
New prime minister David Lloyd George of Britian was elected -
British Take Jerusalem
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1917; Britain occupied Palestine. 1918; Iraq is brought under British rule -
US severs diplomatic ties with Germany
President Woodrow Wilson annouced that the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany. -
Abdication of Tsar Nicholas
Overthrown due to poor quality of the russian government. New government decided to carry on with the war despite obvious evidence that proved it to be extremely unpopular -
First Battle of Gaza
Part of the Middle Eastern Campaign of World War I -
US Delcares War on Germany
President Wilson asked for a declaration of war against Germany -
The Battle pf Arras
British attack on German forces in support of a French offensive which was on partically successful. -
Third Battle of Ypres
31 July 1917 - 10 November 1917
Major British offensive in Flanders -
First Battle of Passendaele
During the Third Battle of Ypres
The battle was the object of a costly and unsuccessful offensive in WWI -
Second Battle of Passchendaele
Battle of Beersheba
Between 26 October and 10 November, in and around the Belgian town of Paschendaele -
Surrender of the Turkish Army
On the 8th Jerusalem ceased to be protected by the Ottoman Empire, and the city surrendered the following day -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends war in Russia -
Second Battle of the Marne
15 July - 6 August 1918, the second battle of the Marne was the last major German Spring Offensive onthe Western Front during World War One -
Second Battle of the Somme
Field Marshal refused demands from Marshal Ferdinand Foch to continue Amiens offensive -
Second Battle of the Somme
Began with the opening of the Second Battle of Bapaume -
Munity of German sailors at Kiel
They munity at Kiel and the discomfort spreads all through Germany. -
Abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees to Holland. -
Armistice Day
At 11am on the 11th of November the war in Europe ended. -
Armistice Negotiations Begins
Germany is forced to agree an armistice, ending World War One -
Armistice Day
Declared
