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The spark is what began WW1 as it caused several secret treaties to go into effect. after Franz Ferdinand was shot and killed this forced the European countries into the war due to the secret treaties. this created 2 sides to the first world war, the allies and the central powers. -
The Battle of Marne began on September 6th 1914. The Germans advanced 30 miles to within Paris, but within the next two days the French were reinforced with about 6,000 infantry men. the french managed to save Paris but the Germany's attained a large part of the industrial north-east part of France. -
Germany's First Use of Mustard Gas was during April 22nd 1915. Germany first used mustard Gas in order to reduce the enemy's ability to respond which saved Germany lives. -
The sinking of the Lusitania happened on May 1st 1915. Lusitania was a British vessel which at the time that it was sunk contained american passengers. Lusitania was sunk by a U-boat killing 1197 people including 123 Americans. The sinking of Lusitania was one of the turning points for America joining the war. -
The Battle of Verdun was long, it went from February 21st 1916 to December 18th 1916. The battle of Verdun was the longer battle of WW1 where the Germans used the war tactic of total war in order to destroy the French morale. this led to about 400,000 French casualties, there was no winner. -
The battle of Jutland started on May 31st 1916 and ended on June 1st 1916. The battle of Jutland was a naval battle between the Germans and the British, it was the largest naval battle of ww1 involving about 250 ships and nearly 100,000 troops. At the end of the battle Britain won with over 6000 casualties. -
The Battle at the Somme lasted from July 1st 1916 to November 18th 1916. The British had launched an attack in the Somme river area to pull the German troops away from Verdun. At the end of it both sides had lost a great number of troops, the British suffered 19000 casualties on the first day of fighting. by the end there was over 1 million casualties on both sides of the 5 month Battle. in the end it was a massive loss in resources and caused lasting geographical changes. -
The Zimmerman Telegram was intercepted on January 17th 1917. It requested that mexico would join the war again America in case America where to join WW1. when Americans found out about the Zimmerman Telegram it enraged them and it forced Woodrow Wilson to take America into the war. -
The U.S. sever their diplomatic relations with Germany on February 3rd 1917. shortly before declaring war on Germany the U.S. severed their relations with Germany due to continuous degradation of their relations throughout WW1 -
The Bolshevik Revolution started on March 8th 1917. it was what forced Russia out of the war, the people of Russia saw that the way it was going, staying in the war would be detrimental. they overthrew their imperial government and took Russia out of the war, eliminating the eastern front entirely. -
America declared war on Germany on April 6th 1917. America had declared war on Germany due to the American lives lost due to Germany and their degraded relationship. By the end of the war 116,708 Americans had died fighting for america. -
Germany won on the Eastern Front on March 1918. Germany won on the Eastern front after Germany and Russia signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which gave Russia peace and gave Germany control of parts of some Russian territory. -
The battle of Cantigny started on May 28th 1918 and ended on May 31st. The Battle of cantigny was the first major American battle in world war one after america declared war on Germany. The U.S. won the battle. -
The pars peace Conference was held on January 18th 1919. The Paris peace conference was a conference to decide how the countries would go on after the world war. america didn't want there to be any more secret treaties between nations which went against the desires of the other European countries. -
The Treaty of Versailles ended the first world war. The Treaty of Versailles was a war agreement between the nations that fought in the war. Germany accepted responsibility for the war and payed 6.6 million for the damages it caused, the number of people allowed in its army was also reduced to 100,000. similar repercussions were also giving to the other nations in the central powers.
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