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Francis Ferdinand assassinated
at Sarajevo -
Austria declared war on Serbia
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Period: to
1914
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Germany declared war on Russia
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German declared war on France and invaded Belgium
Germany has to implement the Schlieffen Plan -
Britian declares war on Germany
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Germany invaded France
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Russian army defeated at Tannenburg and Masurian Lakes
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Battle of Marne
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First battle of Ypres
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Turkey enters war
German allies -
The first Zeppelin raid on Britian took place
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Period: to
1915
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Britian bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles
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Allied troops landed in Gallipoli
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The Lusitania was sunk by a German u-boat
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Italy declared war on Germany and Austria
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The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians
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Start of the Battle of Loos
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The Allies started the evacuation of Gallipoli
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Period: to
1916
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Start of the Battle of Verdun
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British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia
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Battle of Jutland
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Start of the Brusilov Offensive
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Start of the Battle of the Somme
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End of the Bruslov Offensive
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First us en masse of tanks at the Somme
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Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister
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Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started
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Period: to
1917
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USA declared war on Germany
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France launched an unsuccessful offensic on the Western front
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Start of the third Battle of Ypres
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Battle of Caporetto
The Italian army was heavily efeated -
Britian launched a major offensive on the Western Front
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British tanks won a victory at Combrai
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Armistice between Germany and Russia signed
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Britian captured Jerusalem from the Turks
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Germany signed the armistice with the Allies-offical date of the end of WWI
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany
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Period: to
1918
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Germany broke through on the Somme
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Marshall Foch was appointed Allied Commander on the Western Front
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Germany started an offensive in Flanders
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Second Battle of the Marne started.
The start of the collapse of the German Army -
The advance of the Allies was succesful
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Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo
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Germany asked the Allies for an armistice
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Germany's navy mutinied
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Turkey made peace
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Austria made Peace
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Kaiser William II abdicated
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Peace conference met at Paris
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Period: to
Post war 1919
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The surrendered German naval fleet at Scapa Flow was scuttled
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The Treaty of Versailles was signed