The Great War

By naomi.camacho

  • Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    This terrorist act caused the largest war in Europe/World.

  • Austria rejected Serbia's offer

    Austria rejecting the offer caused war between the two countries.
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    Central Powers and Allies were made.

    Countries in Central Powers were Germany and Austria-Hungary. Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire later joined. The countries in the Allied Powers were Great Britain, France, and Russia. Later Japan and Italy joined.

  • Russians defeated the Austrians twice.

    The defeat of the Austrians caused them to go deeper into Austria. Later Germans helped turn it around causing the Russians to go east.

  • Battle of the Allies and Germans

    The Allies attacked Germans northeast of Paris, in the valley of the Marne River.

  • Gallipoli Battle

    British, Australian, New Zeleand, and French tropps assaulted the Gallipoli Peninsula. Turkish troops defended the area. Both sides dug trenches and fought for the rest of the year.

  • German and French Battle

    Each side lost more than 300,000 men. Germans attacked the French near Verdun.
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    Battle in the Valley of Somme River

    British forces attacked Germans northwest of Verdun.On the first day 20,000 British soldiars were killed. By the end of the war almost half a million on both sides were killed.

  • Unrestricted Submarine Warfare.

    German submarines would sink submarines without warning any ship in the waters around Britain.

  • United States join Allies

    President Wilson asked Congress to declare war.

  • Vladimir siezed power.

    Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin siezed power of Russia. He insisted that the country ended the involvement in the war.

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Germany and Russia signed this treaty, that ended the war between them.

  • Second Battle of the Marne

    The Allies and Germans clashed. The Allied forces steadily advanced toward Germany.

  • World War I ended

    Leaders of multiple nations gathered outside of Paris to work out peace.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Germany and the Allied Powers signed the treaty.This treaty created the League of Nations.