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Battle of the somme
An Allied offensive against German forces on the Western Front and turned into one of the most bitter and costly battles of World War I -
Assassination of franz ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo -
Germany invades belgium
Germany declared war on France but troops decided to cross Belgium and attack the French Army by the north then the Germans decided to enter by force and invaded Belgium -
Battle of Marne
The First Battle of the Marne was marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare -
Gallipoli Campaign
The Gallipoli campaign was a military campaign in WW1 that happened in the Gallipoli peninsula -
Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun was happened from 21 February to 18 December 1916 and was the longest war in WW1 and took place on the Western Front in France -
Death of Grigori Rasputin
Rasputin was shot 3 times but He was considered insane by some people and called himself a healer -
Tsar Nicholas abdicates
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated from the Russian throne this brought to an end the Romanov dynasty that had ruled Russia -
US declares war on Germany
Hours after Germany declared war on the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan so the US declares war on Germany -
Lenin's return to from exile
he was the leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, After his exile ended in 1900, Lenin went to Western Europe -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
when it was signed it separate peace treaty that ended Russia's participation in WW1 -
Armistice ending WWI
An agreement in which both sides agree to stop fighting, rather than a surrender -
Treaty of Versailles signed
the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of WW1