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In World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
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A month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War.
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Germany declares war on Russia. France and Belgium begin full mobilization.
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Germany declares war on France, and invades Belgium. Britain sends an ultimatum, rejected by the Germans, to withdraw from Belgium.
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The 120,000 highly trained members of the regular British Army form the British Expeditionary Force commanded by Field Marshal John French.
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Great Britain and France declare war on Austria-Hungary. Serbia is invaded by Hungary
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Japan prepare to assist the British in expelling the Germans from the Far East. German possessions in the South Pacific include a naval base on the coast of China, part of New Guinea, Samoa, and the Caroline, Marshall and Mariana Islands.
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third attempt to conquer the Serbs in retaliation for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This attempt fails like the two before it, Serbs fighting on their home ground. The Austrians withdraw in mid-December, after suffering over 220,000 casualties from the three failed invasions.
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Germany declares the waters surrounding British Isles to be a war zone in which ships can be sunk without warning.
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Turkish government arrested and executed several hundred Armenian intellectuals. After that, ordinary Armenians were turned out of their homes and sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water.
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after receiving the promise of significant territorial gains, Italy signs the Treaty of London, committing itself to enter World War I on the side of the Allies.
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A German U Boat torpedoes the British passenger liner Lusitania off the Irish coast. It sinks in 18 minutes, drowning 1,201 persons, including 128 Americans. President Woodrow Wilson subsequently sends four diplomatic protests to Germany.
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Russia creates a Central War Industries Committee to oversee production and address a severe shortage of artillery shells and rifles on the Front. Russian soldiers in the field without rifles can only get them from fellow soldiers after they are killed or wounded.
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sister ships of the titanic, Britanic, sinks in the Aegean sea, killing 30 people
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The Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
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German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admits the "Zimmermann Telegram" is genuine. Generates support for the US declaration of war on Germany in April.
Mexico and the USA renew diplomatic relations
US Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations -
US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
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The first American troops land in France.
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China declares war on Germany & Austria
Leeuwen soccer team forms -
germany wants peace, no peace was made until germany troops left russia, belguim, and france.
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First recorded case of Spanish flu at Funston Army Camp, Kanas; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million
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the war had ended but chance of conflicts happening because of WW1
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a few months after the end of World War I, leaders from the Allied nations began a series of discussions that became known as the Paris Peace Conference to settle issues raised by the war and its aftermath
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Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France
