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Events of World War 1
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed by Gavrilo Princip while he was on his way to visit injured people from an earlier assassination on him at the hospital, when his driver took a wrong tern were Gavrilo Princip was having tea and when he killed Ferdinand -
Austria-Hungry declare war on Serbia
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and Europe rapidly descends into chaos causing the first world war. -
Austria-Hungary invades Russia
The Austria-Hungary Empire declares war on Russia. Russia was mobilizing there forces because their allies were getting attached and France said they would fight Russia if they attacked Germany. -
Belgium is Invaded
Germany declared war on France and Germany had to go throw Belgium to get to France but Belgium didn't let them. Germany couldn't go anywhere else so they used force, by invading them to get to France. -
Japan joins the war
Japan joined WWI as a member of the allied forces and seized the opportunity of Imperial Germany's distraction with the European War to expand its influence in China and the Pacific. -
Battle of Tannenberg
it ended in Germany's victory and a lot of military supplies were wasted as it was over only a month in. -
Ottoman empire joins WW1
The ottoman empire initially aimed to stay neutral in World War I but soon concluded an alliance with Germany and entered the war on the side of the Central Powers in October 1914. -
Germany starts naval blockade
Germany begins a naval blockade of Great Britain. Using its naval resources, Germany tried to enforce its own blockade in the North Sea. -
Germany sank the Lusitania
A German submarine torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, A British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool England. -
U.S Tells germany to stop submarine warfare
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent Germany the first of three letters related to the sinking of the RMS Lusitania telling Germany to stop using submarine warfare against commercial vessels. -
Itally Switches sides
Italy resigned from the Tripple alliance and later came back on the side of the Allied powers and declared war on Austria hungry. -
Battle of Verdun
It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most ferocious battles of the war. French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000. Some 300,000 were killed. -
USA Joins the War
The US joins the war after Germany attacked the Lusitania ship. also, Germany was taking down cargo ships from France to the US. -
Drafting
On June 5, 1917, all men over 21 and under 31 were forced to leave their families and fight in the war. -
Signing of The Treaty of Versaille
The Treaty was the ending of WW1