Events Leading to World War I

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  • Franco-Prussian War

    France is defeated by Kaiser Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, and Germany becomes a unified federation of states
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    Events leading up to World War I

    Listed are ten of the most important or influential moments in History, leading up to the first World War.

  • Alliances between nations form

    Triple alliances form first between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, and then an alliance forms between Russia and France... finally, Britain and Japan form a naval alliance in 1902

  • Japan defeats Russia in a military battle at Sea

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • Turkey gets involved

    After Turkey enters the war on the side of the Central powers, Russia, Britain, and France all align against Turkey.

  • War is declared!

    First Austria (on Serbia), and then Germany (on Russia), then Germany (on France), and, finally, the British declared war and the Japanese as well. Like Dominos falling...

  • Italy sides with its Allies

  • Second Battle of Ypres

    The Germans claim many British lives with poison gas

  • Winston Churchill resigns

  • Romania joins the war

  • Battles of Verdun and Somme

  • Italy calls for reinforcements

    Italy loses many military men on the front lines during their fight with central powers

  • USA declares war on Germany

  • Hindenberg line collapses