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Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenburg, were shot in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip. Gavrilo was apart of the Serbs of Bosnia. Their objective for killing was so they could break off the South Slav provinces to combine into a Greater Serbia. -
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World War I
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Battle of Marne
This battle was the first major battle in the western front. It started when Germany invaded Belgium. who had not put up much of a fight. After that the British Expeditionary Army had pursued the French Army, who were trying to withdarw, to the River Marne. -
Lusitania Sunk
It was a ship that set sail from New York, which despite all the warnings, the U-20 shot it. It had created an unusually large explosion becasue it had arms and ammunition on it. After that, the "sink on sight" policy was called off. -
Battle of Loos
It was the first time the Germans used poison gas in war. Also it was the first large scale use of Kitchener's Army Unit. The gas attack backfired on the British, but they still broke through the German defence and captured Loos. -
Gallipoli Evacuation Begins
A plan thought by Winston Churchill to create another large scale war, forcing the Germans to split up to help their allies, the Turks, leaving the already weakend half of the army, to fight Churchill's Allies. -
Battle of Jutland
This battle is known as the only major naval battle in the war. It was the biggest naval war in world War One. It was a naval battle between the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet. -
America Declares War
America declares war in Germany. Though they tried to stay neutral in this war, Woodrow Wilson declared war after the German's unrestricted submarine warfare. -
Battle of Caporetto
One of the only decisive battles the Italians had. In this battle they had suffered major losses. the Austro Hungarian forces were aided by the Germans, who tactically broke apart the Italian's Army -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The treaty that ended the war between Russia and Germany. Lenin had told the Bolsheviks to get a quick treatty from the Germans so that they could work on Russia -
End of World War One
Germany signed an Armisticise with the Allies. Though this was a treaty, it was reallt the defeat of Germany. The ones who signed it were Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the Allied Commander-in-chief, and Matthias Erzberger, Germany's representative.
