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Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Archduke Ferdinand the heir of the Austro-Hungarian empire and his wife were assessinated by a Bosnian Serb Nationalist in Sarajevo. This led the start of the WWI -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
Austria gave an ultimatum to Serbia, if they didn´t allow an investigation about the assassination of the archduke and eliminate the anti-Austria propaganda, but Belgrade rejects the ultimatum so Autria declared war on Serbia. -
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The Great War
This is one of the biggest conflict of history. It started with and assessination and ended with europe´s economy wiped out. It was divided in 2 phases: The war of movement and The trench warfare. -
Germany enters Belgium
At the beginning of the war Germany entered FRance passing throug Belgium that was a neutral country, Germany made this because it strategy was to end first with France and then with Russia. However when Germany entered Belgium THe uk Joined the war and France and the UK together avoided Germany destroying France. -
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungria
After signing the Treaty of London, Italy changed sides, leaving the Central Powers to join the Allies. After this Antonio Salandra, the president of the Italian parliament, declared war on Germany entering in the conflict -
United States declare war on Germany
Germany continued using unrestricted submarine warfare and sank some neutral ships some of them from the US, seeing this the US warned Germany, but they continue using submarines, this made Woodrow Wilson declare war on Germany. This event was revitalising for the Allies due to the Americans economic power. -
Bolshevik storm the Winter Palace
A furious crowd of people stormed this palace which was the residence of the Romanov family, after this event the October revolution won. -
Russia signs armistice with Germany
The bolsheviks after the october revolution started peace talks with Germany and the Central Powers. This talks ended in the 2 powers signing this armistice putting an end on Russia participation in war, The armistice entered in vigor 2 days after its signing. After this armistice to definetly end war with Germany they signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk -
Russia signs the traeaty of Brest-Litovsk
When the Bolsheviks won, they signed this treaty with the Central powers this put an end to Russia´s involvement in the war. Russia renounced to its European territory and it was given to Germany. -
Armistice
Also known as the Compiègne Armistice, it put and end to the war in the western front. It was signed between Germany and The Allies. Giving the victory of the war to the Allies. It was signed in train carriage. The conditions imposed to Germany created a great discontent to its people and to Hitler -
Treaty of Versailles signed
It´s the treaty of peace that put and end to the Great War, after Germany requesting an Armistice, the Big Four reunited in Paris wrote this treaty. It was written tha germany must carry all the blame of the war, pay high reparations, return Alsace and LOrraine to France, loose their colonies and half of their arsenals