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Triple Alliance
The Dual Alliance started in 1879, which was between Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Italians joined the Dual Alliance in 1882, forming the Triple Alliance. -
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Kaiser Wilhelm II changes foreign policy, forced Bismarck to resign
In 1888, Kaiser Wilhelm II became ruler of Germany. He was proud and didn’t want to share power with Bismarck. In 1890, he wanted to show his country’s power to the world by forcing Bismarck to resign. -
Franco-Russian Alliance
In 1892 and 1894,Russia formed defensive military alliance with France.France would remain the principal ally of Russia until 1917, from an economical, financial and military point of view. -
Forming the Triple Entente
Britain made another entente with France and Russia 3 years after Britain formed entente with France in 1904.The Triple Entente did almost certainly ensure that Britain would not fight with France and Russia. -
Triple Entente
The Triple Entente was the name given to the alliance among France, Britain and Russia after the signing of the Franco-Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907. -
Assassination
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. -
Austria presented Serbia with the ultimatum
The ultimatum was presented by the Austrian government to Belgrade on Thursday 23 July 1914 at 6 p.m. They wanted to launch an investigation of the murder of Ferdinand and his wife. -
Austria Declared War
Austria declared war on Bosnia. Russia also ordered mobilization toward the Austrian border. -
Germany declared war on Russia
Germany, an ally of Austria-Hungary, declares war on Russia and demands the neutrality of Russia's ally France; France refuses and mobilises. -
Germany declared war on France
This plan started to go wrong on the 30th of July 1914, when Russia mobilised its army, but France didn't. In a panic, on August 3rd 1914, Germany was forced to invent a pretext to go to war with France. -
Britain declared war on Germany
After Germany declared war on France,one day later,Great Britain declared war on Germany. -
Battle of Tannenberg
The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between the Russian Empire and the German Empire in the first days of World War I. It was fought by the Russian First and Second Armies against the German Eighth Army between 26 August and 30 August 1914. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army. -
Allies attack Germany at the First Battle of the Marne
The Battle of the Marne was a First World War battle fought between 5 and 12 September 1914.The battle effectively ended the month long German offensive that opened the war and had reached the outskirts of Paris. -
Ottoman Empire formally joins Central Powers
The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers in the hopes of regaining lost territories. -
Launch the Gallipoli campaign
In February of 1915, the Allies launched the Gallipoli Campaign.It was a failure and eventully prompted Bulgaria to joined.The end,the Allies abandoned attempts to land in the Balkans. -
Italy joins Entente
Italy joined the Allies after they were promised Autsrian lands. -
Germany sinks the U.S.S. Lusitania
A German U-boat sunk the British passenger ship Lusitania. The attack killed a total of 1,198 people dead, including 128 U.S. citizens. -
Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun was one of the major battles during the WWI on the Western Front. It was fought between the German and French armies, on hilly terrain north of the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. -
Unrestricted submarine warface
Germans announce their policy of unrestricted submarine warface -
The Zimmermann Note
The Zimmermann Telegram was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States.The proposal was intercepted by British intelligence. Revelation of the Telegram angered Americans and led in part to a United States declaration of war on Germany in April. -
Ending of Russia's Involvement
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ended Russia’s involvement in WWI.He wanted to offer Germany a truce. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Germany and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed at Brest-Litovsk between Russia and the Central Powers marking Russia's exit from World War I. -
Second Battle of the Marne
The Second Battle of the Marne was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. The German attack failed when an Allied counterattack led by France overwhelmed the Germans, inflicting severe casualties. It was the turning point of the war in the western front. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II stepped down
Kaiser Wilhelm II stepped down from power, Germany declared itself a republic. -
Armistice (The End)
A German representative and French Commander Marshal Foch met in a railway car in a forest near Paris,they signed an armistice,that's the end of the war.
