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Franz Ferdinand and his wife were both assassinated on the 28th of June 1914. They arrived at Sarajevo's Town Hall and they were killed by the Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist secret society.
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Australia got involved when it was declared that Britain and Germany had went to war. Joseph Cook and opposition leader Andrew Fisher pledged full support for Britain.
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First Battle of Marne featured the first use of radio intercepts and automatic transport or troops in wartime.
Ferdinand Foch's army attacked the advances of the German sceond and third armies with the help of Michel-Joseph Maunoury's French Sixth Army, French Fifth Army and British Expeditionary. -
It was originally planned to break through the strongly enforced German defences enclosing the Ypres angle, a large bulge in the British Front Line.
Australian divisions participated in the battles of Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseine, Poelcapelle and the first Battle of Passchendaele.
Unfortunatley no break through was achieved. -
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British forces launch an attack on German positions at Loos, Belgium.
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It began between German and British scouting forces with a gunfire.
Both sides claimed victory though British forces had retained control fo the North Sea. -
Two years on trench warfare, the allies attempted to break through German lines on the Western Front, the battl going on for months and the result of casualties more than one million.
The battles happened near the Somme River in France.
The first day alone, British forces suffered more than 57,000 casualties. -
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