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Assasination of the archduke
Gavrilo Princip, members of a Jugoslav-nationalistic movment shot Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, since the people there feel offendet by his visit while they were invited in the past. This causes the Juli crises and was the great trigger of World War 1. -
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Juli Crises
Germany assured their aliances with Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary set claims for Serbia which the rejected. Both sides mobelise their troops only aganst each other. That causes other mainpowers like russia and germany to join the war. The war had reached worring levels were alle the mein powers are in a war. -
Schliefenplan
German troops march trough Belgien to attack France. This event is also calles "The rape of Belgium", since Germans destroit and attackt citys in the nonpartisan Belgien. It was so Important because Germany wanted to avoid a 2 Front war and there for it had to invide france first. -
Christmas peace
English and german warriors spontainiusly stopt fighting and celebrate together christmas at the forwardmost. They sang Chrtistmassongs and even had small Christmas trees. It showed that ther is still humanity of both sides. Soldieres started to think about why they went into a war against people which are exactly like they are. -
Gas war
Germans start to use poisenes yperite gas to kill their oponents. The gas was heavier than the air, that causes it to spreat in the ditches over miles. That caused many death. The solieders had to get out of their ditches were they didnt had any protection and died in the rifle fire. -
Battle of Verdun
It was a battle between Frenche and Germany where ther germans at the end take ther symbolistic french gate Douaumont. It was so significant because it repesent the pointless killing of men throgh a usless positional war. -
USA entries into the war
The United States of America declare Germany war, since germany attackt American vessels and destroied them. Without the USA as a supporter of the other Europen powers, France and England would maybe not have made it against Germany. -
pease contract of Breslikowsk
Sowjet russia concludes pease. Germany dont have to worries about the east front anymore and can use all its powers to fight against GB and France. -
ceasefire
France, GB and Germany conclude a ceasefire. World War one is over. This is so important, since that is the point were the World War is stopted. It will be official over with the treaty of Versailles. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was an assembly of many nations to keep the World in pease. It Should avoid a second World War.
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Tready of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties.[6] Although the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at th
