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Balkan war
There were two successive military conflicts that deprived the Ottoman empire of all its remaining territory in Europe except part of Thrace and the city of Adrianople. Another conflict erupted when Balkan allies Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria quarreled over the partition of their conquests.The resumption of hostilities in 1913 between Bulgaria on the on hand and Serbia and Greece, which were joined by Romania, on the other. -
Balkan war
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assassination of archduke franz ferdinand
At the start of WW 1, the Great War of 1914 to 1918, This was triggered of a teenage Serbian revolutionary shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, presumptive heir to Austro-Hungarian, and his wife Sophie Chotek in 1900 even though his uncle the sitting Emperor Franz Josef who refused attend their wedding. Ferdinand believes the Serbs to be pigs, thieves, murderers, and scoundrels. Bosnians found out about Ferdinand upcoming visit he began plotting to assassinate him and there were two killers to do so. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
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world war 1 begins
The Great war began after the death of Archduke Franz of Austria and his murder was catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted 1918. The Austria-Hungary was readying for war and Serbian government told the Serbian army to mobile and appeal to Russia for assistance. The Austria declared war on Serbia and peace between Europe's great powers collapsed. In 1 week Russia, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Serbia had to go up against Austria and Germany, and world war 1 had begun. -
Gallipoli, Somme
The WW1 WAs stalled on the western front on 1915, the Allied powers were debating going on in another region of the conflict, rather continuing attacks in Belgium and France. The Russia's Grand duke Nicholas ask aid to Britain in confronting the Turkish. The response was decided to launch a naval ex[edition and if successful allies to link up with the Russians in the black sea, where they can work together to knock Turkey out of the war. -
Lusitania sinks
The Germans U-boat torpedoed the British-owned luxury steamship name Lusitania, and killed 1,195 people including 128 Americans, according to the Library of congress. The days before the leave of Lusitania was scheduled to leave New York for Liverpool in May 1915, the Imperial embassy in Washington D.C. put a newspaper and warned travelers that vessels flying that Great Britain or any allies can cause destruction. The Germans sunk the ship after 6 days without any warning within 20 min -
Zimmerman Note
The Germans made a pledge to limit submarine warfare but broke the pledge and in response to the breaking of the Sussex pledge, the U.S severed the diplomatic relations with Germany. Several weeks later the British presented the Zimmerman telegram to the U.S Government in an effort to capitalize on growing anti-German The Zimmerman Telegram had such an impact that according to David Kahn, Author of the code breaker no other single cryptanalysis had such enormous consequences. -
Russia withdraws from war
Russia's involvement in WW 1 alongside its allies, France and Britain, had a heavy loss against Germany partially against Austria-Hungary. The Defeat on the battlefield fed discontent among Russia's population, even the poverty of workers and peasants, and hostility of the imperial regime, led by Czar Nicholas. A February Revolution broke out in May 1917 Nicholas abdicated later that month. After Lenin's return from exile in mid-April, he and his fellow Bolsheviks worked to seize power. -
U.S. enters war
Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against the Germans, The house of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 272 to 50 and America formally enters World War 1. President Woodrow Wilson said neutrality for the United States became favored. Britain was one of the closest trading partners, and tension arose between U.S. and Germany over the latter and attempted quarantine of the British Isles. Germany was cutting ships from getting to Britain by German mines. -
U.S joins the war part 2
On February 22, congress passed a $250 million arm appropriations bill intended to make the united states ready for war. President Wilson appeared before congress and calling for a declaration of war against Germany. Four days later, his request was granted. The first infantry troops landed in France on June 26 to begin training for combat. After four years of gruesome stalemate along the western front, America's well supplied forces into the conflict marked a major turning point in the war . -
Russian Revultion
Russian Revolution The first of which in February, overthrew the imperial government and the second of which placed Bolsheviks in power. The Russians had an embarrassing defeat in eh Russo-Japanese War. The military reverse shattered Russia's dreams of establishing hegemony (preponderant influence or authority over others' domination) over the whole of Asia. The Russian people did not respond to the war with real enthusiasm. The people of Russia fought against the abuse of the imperial govern. -
Chateau-Thierry
The 66 men from the Madison county who died during the war about four were killed in action during the battle of Chateau Thierry. The Chateau was part of the Marne river east of Paris and took part hotly contested strip of trench warfare running north to south France. The fighting in and around the town of Chateau was proving to perishing's American Expeditionary Force. The Germans attacked, the AEF but retaliated with a counter-attack, The German was repulsed and pushed back commandingly. -
Russia withdraw from war Part 2
They needed to seize power from the provisional Government, led by Alexander Kerensky, Russia 'minister of war. Lenin's first action was to halt Russian participation in the war. An armistice was reached in early December 1917 and a formal cease-fire was declared on December 17, the determined terms of peace between Russia and the Central Power. In mid-February angry Trotsky deemed the central powers' terms too harsh for territory unacceptable. The fighting resumed briefly on the Eastern Front -
First meeting of the league of nations
The League of Nations is the first inter-government organization established to promote international cooperation and international organization peace and security. The founding document was drafted at the end of the world war. The purpose of this was a new era of multilateral (agreed or participated in by three or more parties) cooperation and this helped to try to settle their disputes peacefully. When joining the League, member states also renounced secret diplomacy. -
Armistice
Armistice is the agreement for the cessation of active hostilities between two or more belligerents. On the Western front, millions of lives were lost, and the guns on the western front fell silent. They expected WW 1 to last beyond on Aug 1914, However, in the next few months it was clear this would not pass. The reason why the Germans took the armistice was that the west German arms imminent collapse so this led to pursuing the armistice. Germans received the word Kaiser they sign an armistice -
Argonne
The Meuse-Argonne was the offensive part of the Allied of world war 1 and it was one of the attacks that brought an end to the war and fought from Sep 26 throughout Nov 11, 1918, when the Armistice was signed. The Argonne was the largest operation of the American Expeditionary forces in WW1, with about almost over a Million American soldiers participating, It was so deadly that over 26,000 dead and over 120,000 total casualties. The number of graves in America at Romagna is far larger than those -
treaty of versatilely signed
The treaty of Versailles was signed at the palace of Versailles outside Paris, France. This treaty was one of the several that officially ended five years of conflict known as world war 1. The treaty is one of the most controversial armistice treaties in history also called the war guilt.