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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Franz was the Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie were shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital -
Germany invades Belgium
o avoid the French fortifications along the French-German border, the troops had to cross Belgium and attack the French Army by the north. -
Battle of Marne
an offensive during World War I by the French army and the British army against the advancing Germans. -
Gallipoli Campaign
a military campaign in the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula -
Battle of Verdun
was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse. -
Battle of Somme
costly and largely unsuccessful Allied offensive during World War I. The horrific bloodshed on the first day of the battle became a metaphor for futile and indiscriminate slaughter. -
Death of Grigori Rasputin
He died of three gunshot wounds, one of which was a close-range shot to his forehead. -
tsar nicholas abdicates
This brought to an end the Romanov dynasty that had ruled Russia for over three hundred years. -
US declares war on Germany
President Woodrow Wilson asked a special joint session of the United States Congress for a declaration of war against the German Empire -
Lenin's return to from exile
Returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
a treaty that concluded hostilities between those countries during World War I. -
Armistice ending WWI
after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. -
. Treaty of Versailles signed
the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I