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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosni, named Gavrilo Princip. Franz Ferdinand had already been attempted to assassinate but survived eralier that day. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
Due to the assassination, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire declared what was expected to be a short war on Serbia. -
Germany Invades Belgium
To invade France, germqany had to invade Belgium. the Belgian government had announced that if war came it would uphold its neutrality, the German government sent an ultimatum to Belgium, demanding passage through the country and German forces invaded Luxembourg. -
Start of WW1
Started when Britain and Germany went to war and Prime Minister Andrew Fisher's government pledged full support for Britain. The outbreak of war was greeted in Australia, as in many other places, with great enthusiasm. -
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Battle of Tannenberg
Germany defeats Russian army. was an engagement between the Russian and the German Empires in the first days of World War I. It was fought by the Russian Second Army against the German Eighth Army between 26 August and 30 August 1914.[8] The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army, as well as the death of its commanderAlexander Samsonov. -
Battle of Bita Paka
Intention was to capture the wireless station at Bita Paka. A mixed force of German officers and Melanesian police mounted a stout resistance and forced the Australians to fight their way to the objective. After a day of fighting during which both sides suffered casualties, Australian forces captured the wireless station. -
First Battle of Ypres
Also called the First Battle of Flanders British troops entered Ypres in October 1914. They were unaware of the size of the German force advancing on the town. Eyewitnesses claim to have seen the German troops, with just 6 weeks training, with arms linked singing patriotic songs. -
Raid on Suez Canal
Also known as Actions on the Suez Canal, took place between 26 January and 4 February, 1915 after a German led Ottoman Army force advanced from Southern Palestine to attack the British Empire protected Suez Canal, before the beginning of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. -
Sinai & Palestine
28 Jan 1915 - 30 Oct 1918. Was fought between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire supported by the German Empire. It started with an Ottoman attempt at raiding the Suez Canal in 1915, and ended with the Armistice of Mudros in 1918, leading to the cession of Ottoman Syria and Palestine. -
Gallipoli
The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-16, also known as the Battle of Gallipoli or the Dardanelles Campaign, was an unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War I. The campaign began with a failed naval attack by British and French ships on the Dardanelles Straits in February-March 1915 and continued with a major land invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25, involving British and French troops as well as divisions of the Australian... -
Lusitania Sunk
The Lusitania sailed on May 1st 1915 from New York bound for Liverpool. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes. The vessel went down 18k off the Old Head of Kinsale killing 1,198 and leaving 761 survivors. -
Battle of Lone Pine
6-9 August. Was originally intended as a diversion from attempts by New Zealand and Australian units to force a breakout from the ANZAC perimeter on the heights of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971. resulting in over 2,000 Australian casualties. -
Battle of Verdun
21 Feb – 20 dec 1916. The German siege of Verdun and its ring of forts, which comprised the longest battle of the First World War, has its roots in a letter sent by the German Chief of Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, to the Kaiser,Wilhelm II, on Christmas Day 1915. On the Western Front between the German and French armies,. The German Fifth Army attacked the defences of the (RFV) and the Second Army on the right bank of the Meuse, intending rapidly to capture tht cote de meuse. -
Battle of Somme
Fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire, resulted in the loss of 58,000 British troops (one third of them killed) on the first day of the battle, which to this day remains a one-day record. -
Battle of Fromelles
The Australians suffered 5,533 casualties in one night. 19–20 July 1916) was a British military operation on the Western Front -
United States declaration of war
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Battle of Vimy Ridge
9-12 Apr. It was a military engagement fought primarily as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps, of four divisions, against three divisions of the German Sixth Army. The battle was part of the opening phase of the British-led Battle of Arras, a diversionary attack for the French Nivelle Offensive. -
Battle of Passchendaele or 3rd Battle of Ypres
31 July – 10 November. ought by the British and their allies against the German Empire. The battle took place on the Western Front, between July and November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of Ypres in West Flanders, as part of a strategy decided by the Allies at conferences in November 1916 and May 1917. For the soldiers who fought at Passchendaele, it was known as the 'Battle of Mud'. The attack at Passchendaele was Sir Douglas Haig's attempt to break through Flanders. -
USSR withdraws from war
Russian revolutionaries setup a Communist goverment, attempting to make peace with the Central Powers. -
RAF forms
The British Royal Airforce formed by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. -
Austrian-Hungarian Empire surrenders
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End of World War 1
The War Ended because Germany ran out of food, supplies, and manpower, and had to surrender.
The Shortages of Supplies and food came mostly from the British Naval Blockade, which had been stopping practically all German Trade by sea since 1914.
At the end of the war, four major imperial powers—the German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires—ceased to exist. -
League of Nations formed
Intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Its primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament, and settling international disputes through negotiation andarbitration. It had 58 members. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolution and other events in Russia. The treaty was signed at the vast Versailles Palace near Paris - hence its title - between Germany and the Allies. The three most important politicians there were David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson.
