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Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death. Assasinated by serbian , Gavrillo Princip. -
German Promised Support for Austria
Kaiser William II makes the promise for Germany to unconditionally support Austria even though knowing Russia might be theyre enemy. -
Austria declared war on Serbia
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia because they had just taken over Bosnia but people there considered themselves as Serbs and wanted Bosnia to be part of Serbia. A member from a Serbian group called the Black Hand group assaninated Austria's next in line to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Austria blamed Serbia for this so sent them an ultimatum. The Serbian government couldn't fulfil all the demands so Austria declared war on Serbia. -
Germany declared War on Russia
Germany was honoring her alliance with Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in response to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalists. -
Britain declared war on Germany
Great Britain had no current alliances with Belgium , the main reason for the declaration of war can be found in the previous decade's "naval race" -
Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium.
Germany had to implement the Schlieffen Plan. -
Germany invaded France
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Battle of The Marn
The Battle of the Marne was a First World War battle fought between the 5th and the 12th of September 1914. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German Army -
Battle of Ypres
The Battle of Ypres actually includes three battles. They were fought in Ypres, Belgium. The town of Ypres was always under attack from the Germans because it was a key point in keeping them from the English Channel. -
Trench Warfare dominates Western Front
Trench warfare is a form of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. -
The first Zeppelin raid on Britain took place
A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. Zeppelin's ideas were first outlined in 1874 and formulated in detail in 1893. They were patented in Germany in 1895 and in the United States on 14 March 1899. -
Britain bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles
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USA declares war on Germany
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Allied troops landed in Gallipoli
Gallipoli was one of the Allies great disasters in World War One. Gallipoli was the plan thought up by Winston Churchill to end the war early by creating a new war front that the Central Powers could not cope with. -
Lusitania sunk by the Germans
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Italy declared war on Germany and Austria
On this day in 1943, the government of Italy declares war on its former Axis partner Germany and joins the battle on the side of the Allies -
Start of Battle Loos
The Battle of Loos was one of the major British offensives mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I. -
The Allies started the evacuation of Gallipoli
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Start of battle of Verdum
The Battle of Verdun was one of the major battles during the First World War on the Western Front. It was fought between the German and French armies -
Battle of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht) was a naval battle fought by the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet -
Start of Battle of Somme
also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on either side of the river Somme in France. The battle saw the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army mount a joint offensive against the German Army, which had occupied a fairly large part of the north of France since its invasion of the country in August 1914. -
Start of Third Battle of Ypres
he Third Battle of Ypres was the major British offensive in Flanders in 1917. It was planned to break through the strongly fortified and in-depth German defences . -
Armistice between Rusia and Germmany signed
Lenin and the newly founded communist government in Russia did not want war, they wanted to focus on establishing communism in Russia.The armistice between the Allies and Germany - also known as the Armistice of Compiègne after the location it was signed - was an agreement that ended the fighting in the First World War. -
Treaty of Brest-litovsk was signed between Russia and Germanty
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Germany broke through on the somme
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Second Battle of the Marne Started
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Turkey made Peace
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Austria made Peace
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Germany signed an armastice with the Allies.
Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One.Celebration in the trecnshes shows the joy and happiness from the end of this dreadful war.
