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Ottoman Empire sought to invade Austria to extend their grip on the Balkans but they were defeated in the siege of Vienna.
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Serbia revolts against Ottoman Turk rule and gains sovereignty in 1830.
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Ottomans cede Balkan territories to Austria.
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German territorial states unify and become one country.
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Russia defeats Ottomans in Rumania so they could protect their co-religionists and at the Treaty of San Stefano creates Rumania as a sovereign nation.
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Triple Entente joins Great Britain, France and Russia in defense pact. Also Triple Alliance joins Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy in defense pact, but Italy makes a secret agreement with France that they will not respect their prior pact.
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German declares that they support Austrian-Hungary rights in the Balkans and makes bellicose statements toward Russia which Germany believes is ill prepared to go to war with Germany.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. His death is one of the events that sparks WW1.
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Russia mobilizes its army to intervene against Austria- Hungary in favor of its ally, Siberia. Chain reaction that led to the mobilization of the rest of the European Great powers.
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Germany invaded Belgium, starting the war.
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Germans sign a peace treaty with the new Bolshevik government of Russia.
- Germany got huge lands
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First major American offensive of the war.
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Germany signed an armistice that had been prepared by Britain and France.
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Formally ended WW1
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Although the treaty helped stop the war it led to the destruction of germany's economy because they were forced to pay reparations. Their people were starving and government was in chaos. (https://youtu.be/0jycVFL8CNM)
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Great economic suffering. People were out of work and just struggling to survive which created unstable governments and worldwide turmoil.
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Japan started to grow but did not have the means to grow so they started to spread to other places and invaded Manchuria in 1931 and China in 1937.
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In 1934 was proclaimed the leader and became the dictator of Germany. Even with the treaty of Versailles Hitler started to rearm his country.
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Germany invades Poland. World War II begins.
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The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
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Germany surrenders to the Allies. Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.
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The Greeks revolted against Ottoman rule.
