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The Great War
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of Ferdinand was important because it triggered the beginning of WWI. -
Austria-Hungary's declaration of war
The first global war. -
The Schlieffen Plan
The invasion of neutral Belgium is what brung the British into war -
First Battle of the Marne River
This was a significant triumph for the Allied powers because it ruined the Germans plan to invade Paris. -
Battle of Limanowa
'Austro-Hungarian Army repelled a Russian breakthrough southwestwards between Limanowa and Kraków'. -
Gallipoli Campaign
This signifies the first time Austrailia went to war with this country. -
Battle of Verdun
This battle was assumed an iconic place in French military history as a symbol of the nations determination to defend its soil at all costs. -
Battle of Somme
The British introduced a very effective weapon into the war; a tank. -
Unrestricted submarine warefare
A German submarine had sunk the Lusitania ship killing 1,198 people plus 128 U.S. citizens. This made America furious and this event led them into war. -
The United States enters war
The effort and significance increased U.S. military -
Russia Communist Leader Vladimir Lenin
He thought communism was the last part of history and would "inevitably" replace socialism. -
Second Battle of the Marne
The battle had an Allied victory. When the Germans' plans failed, they even lost land a number of German commanders. -
Armistice
This put an end to the war when Germany signed an Armisitce. -
Treaty of Versailles
The harshness of Germany included them into the war