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Triple Alliance
Alliance of the German Empire , Austria-Hungary, Italy -
Morocco crisis
German Empire offered to help Morocco against France -
Bloody Sunday (Russia)
Revolution demanding the end of autocracy. Peaceful demonstration responded with brutal repression -
Algeciras Conference
Authorised a Franco-Spanish protectorate, which forced Germany to back down -
Triple Entente
Alliance of France, Russia, Britain -
Annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary, increased tension in the Balkans -
Balkan Wars
Wars in 1912 and 1913, Serbia allied with Russia and won. Austria-Hungary looked for the Germans for support -
Outbreak of War
Archiduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian empire was assassinated in Bosnia by Serbian nationalist organisations -
War declaration
Austria-Hungary declared war to Serbia, which caused a domino effect and caused the start of First World War -
German war declaration to France
Germany declared war to France -
Battle of Verdun
German offensive on the Western Front but were stopped by the French. Achieved very little depite enormous casualties -
February Revolution
Large demonstration in Russia in which the army joined. -
Tsar abdication
The tsar abdicated and a republic was proclaimed -
April Theses
Lenin comes back from Switzerland and publishes his ideas that the Soviets should be the ones in power in the April Theses -
US joins the war
US joined First World War, which made it a truly global conflict -
October Revolution
The Bolsheviks occupied Petrograd and overthrew the provisional government. Bolsheviks were brought to power -
Parliament's election
The provisional government made a election in the parliament in which the Bolsheviks didn't win so they decided to set a dictatorship -
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Russia's civil war
Civil war between the Bolsheviks (Red Army) and the ones who opposed them (White Army). The Bolsheviks applied extreme measures and won, hardening the Soviet regime. -
Brest-Litovsk treaty
Russia withdrew from the war signing a treaty with Germany -
Armistice
German surrended and an armistice was signed, bringing the war to a end -
Conference in Paris
Conference in Paris to establish the terms for peace. Only the winners (France, Britain, US). France and Britain blamed Germany of the war -
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty signed with Germany which forced it to pay enormous amounts of money, took its colonial empire and part of its territory and its army and navy were reduced to a minimum -
Creation of the USSR
The USSR was a federal state with a parliament and a single party. Totalitarian system justified by Marxism's theory of the proletariat dictatorship