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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated by Bosnian Serb nationalist and Black Hand member Gavrilo Princip. -
War is been declared.
The Austria-Hungarian government made harsh demands on the Serbians, which the Serbians rejected, prompting Austria-Hungary to declare war against them. -
The first battle of Ypres.
Fought between October and November 1914, the first battle of Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium, was the climactic fight of the ‘Race to the Sea’, an attempt by the German army to break through Allied lines and capture French ports on the English Channel to gain access to the North Sea and beyond. -
The Bolshevik Revolution.
The Bolshevik Revolution was between 1914 and 1917 and started because The new socialist government battled to impose control, but did not want to withdraw from the war. Lenin’s Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution with the aim of finding a way out of the war. -
The Gallipoli Campaign begins.
Urged by Winston Churchill, the Allied campaign landed in the Gallipoli peninsula in April 1915 with the aim of breaking through German-allied Ottoman Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait, which would allow them to attack Germany and Austria from the east and establish a link with Russia. -
The Battle of the Somme.
The Battle of the Somme was known as the deadliest battle in WWI. With over 400,000 missing or dead. Throughout the battle, both sides lost an equivalent of four regiments of soldiers daily. -
The US enters the war.
In January 1917, Germany stepped up their campaign of attacking British merchant vessels with U-boat submarines. The US was angered by Germany torpedoing neutral ships in the Atlantic which often carried US citizens. -
The Battle of Passchendaele.
The Battle of Passchendaele has been described as the blindest struggle of a blind war. -
Letter from John Endicott Bradstreet
Letter from John Endicott Bradstreet to Virginia Watson and an explanation of his status. -
The signing of the Armistice.
On 11 November, a German delegation met French forces commander General Ferdinand Foch in a secluded forest north of Paris, and agreed to an armistice, Terms of the armistice included Germany halting hostilities immediately, evacuating large areas it had occupied in less than a fortnight, surrendering vast amounts of war material, and releasing all Allied prisoners of war immediately. The deal was signed at 5.20 am. The ceasefire began at 11.00 am. The First World War was over.