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Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie Chotek got killed people speculate Serbia had a play in it -
Austria-Hungary starts a war on Serbia -
Germany declares war on Russia France and Belgium.
Britain declares war on Germany.
Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
France and Britain declare war on Austria-Hungary.
Japan declares war on Germany.
Austria-Hungary declares war on Belgium. And the USA stayed out of the war for now. -
Germany invades Belgium however it is stopped at the First Battle of the Marne. The Schlieffen Plan is a flop -
First Battle of Ypres was attempting to outflank each other, Allied and German troops were unable to win a decisive victory then leading them to the onset of trench warfare. -
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire. -
German zeppelin raids on Great Britain begin and bringing the war home to the British people. -
Germany initiates a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare whereby all merchant ships even neutral countries would get attacked.
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Second Battle of Ypres and the Germans launch the first successful gas attack in history. By the end of the war, both Allied and Central Powers will have used chemical weapons in the war.
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British and French troops including Australians and New Zealanders (ANZAC) land on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.
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German U-boat torpedoes the Lusitania a neutral British passenger liner. 128 Americans are killed in this attack.
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taly declares war on Austria-Hungary now entering World War I on the side of the Allies.
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Allied troops move through Mesopotamia in hopes to capture Baghdad from the Ottomans.
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A combined teamup of Austro-Hungarians and Germans (and later Bulgarians) invaded Serbia. After weeks of fighting, the Serbian Army was made to retreat through Montenegro and Albania.
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It was a Treaty of the germans and the allied nations and signing to stop and end ww1