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The Balkan Wars was a small conflict which started on October 8, 1912, and ended August 10, 1913, The Participants were Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Ottoman Empire, Romania, and Serbia -
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franze Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophie were shot dead in their open topped car by Gavrilo Princip -
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The Gallipoli Campaign was Anglo-French operation against Turkey, intended to force the 38 miles long Dardanelles channel and occupy Constantinople -
The Lusitania was a British ship that was torpedoed by a Imperial German U-boat 11 nautical miles off the coast of Ireland -
The Battle of Verdun was a long bloody battle it was the French against the Germans offence -
In January 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. -
President Woodrow Wilson convinced the U.S. Senate to declare war on Germany -
The Bolsheviks overthrew Tsar Nicholas II and took control of Russia -
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The Battle of Chateau-Thierry was one of the first the U.S. fought in and it was a short battle only lasting about less than a week -
In this battle the American troops faced one of the most difficult natural obstacles the Argonne forest which is a super dense forest -
The Armistice or Truce started on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, on the 11th month, of 1918. -
The Allied Nations make Germany compensate for the war by making them giving up land and territories and weakening the German military. -
41 members states gathered in Geneva for the opening of the first session of the Assembly. This represented a large portion of existing states and corresponded to more than 70% of the world's population.