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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killings started a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August. -
To avoid the French fortifications along the French-German border, the troops had to cross Belgium and attack the French Army by the north. The Belgians refused so they entered by force.
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A battle of the First World War fought from 6 to 12 September 1914. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German armies.
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a military campaign in the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula. The Entente powers, fought to weaken the Ottoman Empire ,by taking control of the Turkish straits.
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The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse.
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Also known as the Somme offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and French Third Republic against the German Empire.
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He died of three gunshot wounds, one of which was a close-range shot to his forehead. According to historian Douglas Smith, "what really happened at the Yusupov home on 17 December will never be known". -
This brought to an end the Romanov dynasty that had ruled Russia for over three hundred years. -
Leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. -
A separate peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers, that ended Russia's participation in World War I. The treaty was signed at German-controlled Brest-Litovsk, after two months of negotiations.
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Signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last remaining opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had been agreed with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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The most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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The United States Congress declared war upon Germany, hours after Germany declared war on the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan.