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Great Britain, Germany, France needed foreign market after increase in manufacturing cause by the industrial revolution
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Germany declares war on Russia
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Germany declares war on France
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Germany invades Belgium on the way to France
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Great Britain enters the war
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Tensions rise across Europe. Franz Ferdinand, her to the Austrian hungry throne is shot dead which fueled WW1.
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Germany attacks through neutral Allie Belgium. Britain went to protect Belgium's Border
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By 1914 the German empire was four colonies in Africa. First shots of WW1 were fired in Africa
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west France Indian soldiers join the allies for the first time
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Both sides experiment with tear gas in the first winter of the war But in January 1915 the Germans used a more deadly chemical bromide killing about 1,000 Russian troops at Baltimore
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Definition: Neither side can make a move.
Ways used to solve stalemate:
Machine guns
Tanks
Trench Warfare
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Red poppy flowers are a symbol for armistice day soldiers said this was the only flower that would grow from no mans land.
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Total troops mobilized by all countries in WW1: 65,038,860 Total troops dead: 8,556,315 Total troops wounded 21,218,452
