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Death of Grigori Rasputin
Rasputin's body in heavy carpets and tied with heavy chains. The conspirators then brought the body to a bridge over the Neva River and dumped it into an unfrozen patch of water below. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Yugoslavia -
Germany invades Belgium
Germany invaded Belgium to avoid the French fortifications along the French-German border. -
Battle of Marne
signaled the demise of Germany's aggressive two-front war strategy, -
Gallipoli Campaign
At dawn on 25 April 1915, Allied troops landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in Ottoman Turkey. -
Battle of the Somme
Casualties topped 1 million, including the deaths of more than 300,000. British troops sustained 420,000 casualties—including 125,000 deaths—during the Battle of the Somme. -
Battle of Verdun
Battle of Verdun, (February 21–December 18, 1916), World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. -
7. Tsar Nicholas abdicates
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated from the Russian throne -
Lenin's return to from exile
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. -
11. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russia recognized the independence of Ukraine, Georgia and Finland; gave up Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to Germany and Austria-Hungary; and ceded Kars, Ardahan and Batum to Turkey. -
Armistice ending WWI
fter more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I. -
13. Treaty of Versailles signed
Part XIII of the Treaty of Peace of Versailles. with Hungary, signed at Trianon, 4 June 1920. -
US declares war on Germany
President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917 became the primary motivation behind Wilson's decision to lead the United States into World War I.