The Great War Timeline Assignment

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  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Fredinand

    This day ignited agiant blaze. This single terrorist act set off a chain reaction within the alliance system that would result in the largest war Europe, and the world had ever seen.

  • Great War Starts

    The Alliance System collapses, and because of this, war was started with Great Britain, France, and Russia on this day.
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    Timespan of Great War

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    Schlieffen Plan Develops

    Germany had a plan that by the end of August, the Germans had overrun Belgium and swept into France. This plan was by Schlieffen.
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    Strategy: Eastern Front

    Both sides were sending millions more men to fight on the Eastern Front. This area was a stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border.

  • Battle of the 1st Marne

    Allies attacked the Germans northest of Paris in the valley of the Marne River.
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    War in the Trenches

    By early 1915, opposing armies on the Western Front had dugmiles of parallel trenches to protect themselves from enemy fire. This became known as trench warfare.
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    The Germans Attack

    The Germans launched a massiveattack against the French near Verdun. Each side lost more than 300,000 men.
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    The British Help Attack

    The British army tried to help ease the pressure on the French.British forces attacked the Germans northwest of Verdun, in the valley of the Somme River. In the first day over 20,000 British soldiers were killed
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    Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

    In January 1917,the Germans announced that their submarines would sink without warning any ship in thewaters around Britain.

  • Britain and the U.S. Become Allies

    On April 2, 1917,President Wilson asked Congress to declare war. The United States entered the waron the side of the Allies.
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    Russia Receeds

    Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin of Russia, seized power. He insisted on endinghis country’s involvement in the war.
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    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Germany and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which endedthe war between them.
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    Second Battle of Marne

    Allies defeat Germany at Second Battle of the Marne.

  • The Great War Ends

    World War I came to an end.After four years of slaughter and destruction, the time had come to forge a peacesettlement.

  • The Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles between Germany and the Allied powers was signed on June 28, 1919