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Assasination of Archduke in Serbia
On July 28,1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot dead in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip -
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World War 1
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Germany declares War France in Belgium
Germany declares War on neutral Belgium and invades in a right flnaking move desginged to deafeat France qucikly -
The Battle of Frontires Begins
The Battle of Frontires was a series of battles fought along the eastern fronteir of France and in sounthern Belgium shortly after the outbreak of World War I -
Battles of Neuve-Chapelle.
The Battles of Neuve-Chapelle was a battle in the First World War .It was a offinsive in the Arotis region and broke through at Neuve-Chapelle. -
British forces surrender to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia.
In the single largest surrender of troops in British history to that time , some 13,000 soldiers under the command of Sir Charles Townshend give in on April 29, 1916, after withstanding nearly five months under siege by Turkish and German forces at the town of Kut-al-Amara, on the Tigris River in the Basra province of Mesopotamia -
Battle of Somme
The Battle of Somme also know as the Somme Offensive took place in the Somme part of france. The battle consisted of an offensive by the British and French against the German Army. -
Battle of Messines.
The Battle of Messines was a battle of the Western Front of the First World War it began June 7th when a british general launched an offinsive near the village of Mesen -
President Woodrow Wilson delivers his "fourteen points" speech to the U.S. Congress.
The speech athoured principally by Walter Lipman Expressed Willsons progressive domestic polices into comparably idealistic equivalents for the international cooperation -
Espionage Act is passed.
It prohibited any attempt to interfere with miltary operations -
End of World War 1
The fighting ended with the signing of an armistice which wen into effect at 11:00 a.m. It required that German forces where to evacuate their positions and return back to Germany.
