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assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife
Franz and his wife were is an open car in town for a political event when a gunman Shot him and his wife in their open car. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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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
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Great Britian declares war on Germany
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Battle of Marne
Germany was retreating to the Aisne River where they fought and started a phase of the war know as trench warfare -
The sinking of the Lusitiania
The Lusitiania was sunk by a German submarine that caused over 1,00o deaths and lost cargo which made the Americans mad. -
The Zimmerman Note
This was a note the Germans sent to Mexico to attack the U.S. and keep us distracted from Europe so Germany would have less enemies to attack in Germany but the note was intercepted and made U.S. officals mad -
Battle of Verdun
the Germans were pushing french back and were taking their positions. Along with that after the fisrt few weeks there was more than 600,000 deaths -
Sussex pledge
The Sussex pledge was made for the Germans saying they would warn neutral ships before attacking them. This pledge was made after the Germans sunk another ship called the sussex -
Battle of somme
It was Britian and France that were fighting at the river Somme and by the end of the battle there was over 1.5 million deaths between the two sides. The french attacked the British with heavy artillery in waves. -
Russian Revolution
Russia was in war and barely had enough equipment for the war. So workers took to the streets and clashed with the police because of how their government was and more people kept joining and destroyed police stations. -
U.S. declares war on Germany
Woodrow Wilson asks congress to declare war on Germany becasue they are attacking our supplies that we get and that we are sending to the allies and the president says we need to defend ourselves. -
Battle of Argonne Forest
This was the last Allied attack on the entire western front and lasted for 49 days until the armistice sighned on November 11. This was a battle that was through forest that the Germans had spent time fortifying it. The Allies saw this as a chance to attack and end the war