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The Triple Alliance
The Triple Alliance is formed, composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy -
Maine
The explosion of the battleship Maine was the casus belli of this war. -
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Russian Revolution
It brings together all the events that led to the overthrow of the imperial Tsarist regime during the February Revolution, the subsequent establishment of a Provisional Government -
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The Pig War
The Pig War between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia was a politically motivated trade conflict that took place in the first decade of the 20th century and resulted in the loss of the significant economic influence that the former had enjoyed over the latter during the second half of the previous century. -
Triple entente
It was a military alliance established between France, Russia and Great Britain, which, influenced by continental tensions and the Balkan crises of the late 19th century, decided to form this coalition to guarantee their security against possible aggression from other States. -
Women Tragedy
129 women died in a fire at the Cotton factory in New York, United States, after they went on strike and remained at their workplace. -
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Italo-Turkish War
The Italo-Turkish War or Turco-Italian War, also known in Italy as the Libyan War and in Türkiye as the Tripolitania War, was an armed conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Italy. -
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Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars were two wars that took place in southeastern Europe from 1912 to 1913. -
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Second Balkan War
The Second Balkan War was a brief conflict in the summer of 1913 between Bulgaria and its former allies in the Balkan League, Romania and the Ottoman Empire, from which it emerged defeated. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by a young Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Prinzip.
Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia and issued an ultimatum, which Serbia rejected, and the alliance mechanism led to the outbreak of war. -
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The First World War
The First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. -
Germany and France
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Armenian Genocide
The genocide against the Armenian people, also called the Armenian Holocaust, or Great Crime, was the forced deportation and attempt to exterminate Armenian culture. -
Battle of the Somme
The 1916 Battle of the Somme was one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the First World War, with over a million casualties on both sides. -
The April crisis
The April 1917 crisis in Russia was the first serious conflict between the Russian Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet since their creation during the February Revolution. -
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February Revolution
The February Revolution of 1917 in the Russian Empire marked the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It caused the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, ended the Russian monarchy, and led to the formation of a Provisional Government. -
October Revolution
The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, Red October, and the Great October Socialist Revolution. -
Creation of Soviet Russia
Bolshevik victory. Fall of the Provisional Government. Creation of Soviet Russia. -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the powers engaged in World War. -
The Armistice
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was a treaty signed at Le Francport, near Compiègne, which ended the fighting on land, sea, and air in the First World War between the Allies and their opponent, the German Empire. -
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France at the end of the First World War by over fifty countries. -
The Period of Hyperinflation
The period of hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic occurred in the Weimar Republic, the historical name by which Germany was identified during the interwar period. -
USSR
Creation of the USSR