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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Austro-Hungarian throne Archduke and and his wife, Sophie paid a visit to the capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo. The couple was shot by a 19-year-old man who was ordered to get rid of Bosnia of Austrian rule. The assassination was the trigger to starting the war. Archduke was assassinated because the Bosnian's wished for a segregated country apart from Austria-Hungary. -
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Retaliation of Alliance
The response from Austria after the assassination was to retaliate what the Serbian's did to their leader. Austria rejected Serbia's offer for a peace treaty and declared war. Central Powers were the separation of the allies consisted of France, Great Britain, Russia, and America also joined the fight. The Alliance consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy who later changed to an Allie and Turkey took its place. -
Strategy development on Western Front
Western front had line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences. Due to having those things built; it was due to the battle tension of Germany and Austria-Hungary. European nations choose sides of which central power they want to join in hopes of regaining lost territories. -
Battle of Marne
The Battle of Marne began where the allies of Great Britain, France, and Russia attacked the Germans northeast of Paris. Over 600 taxicabs from Paris rushed to the front. Germany was the first to retreat, had been driven back nearly 60 miles. -
Developments on the Eastern Front
The Eastern Front was stretched along the German and the Russian border. Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. The East side had more movement than the West side during battles of war. -
Battle of Gallipoli
The unsuccessful attempt for the Allied Powers to control the path from Europe to Russia when they were at their weakest point. Known as the Gallipoli campaign. British, Australian, New Zealand, and French troops fought to obtain the west side of the Peninusla. -
Battle of Gallipoli Results
Many vigorously defended the region to gain power to the Peninusla. It became a gruesome war for the countries that were in battle. After a year of fighting both sides resigned from the battle for now. Over 250,000 casualties suffered from the battle. -
War to the Seas
The war movement changed to the sea instead of on foot. The policy of unrestricted submarine warfare was that the Germans sink any submarines without warning from Britain. Germans sunk the British ship called Lusitania. Left over 1,198 people dead leading the United States outraged about the whole situation. -
America Joins the War
The start of America joining the war. A new government was formed, they proposed to continue fighting the war. Over 5.5 million Russian soldiers were either deceased, wounded, and/or caught an illness. -
Truce of the War
Leader named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin became a forte to the power of the war. He insisted on ending the war and to resign from the war as a truce to Germany which developed the Eastern Front as a whole. -
Second Battle of Marne
The Allies and Germans create tension thus having the second battle of the Marne. With over 350 tanks the allies attacked the Germans. Allies had over 2 million troops from the help of the Americans to overkill Germany. -
World War I to an end.
World War I slowly came to an end. After four years of vigorous fighting between allies and central powers there was a forced peace treaty. Many people weren't happy with the treaty but some were relieved that there would no longer be an issue between those countries of the Eastern and Western front. -
Treaty of Versailles
On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed due to
the differences between French, British, and U.S. aims led to disagreements.
