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Triple alliance formed
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Triple Entente formed
The triple entente was the friendship between Great Britain, France, and Russia. Additional link- http://goo.gl/X3Eh4H -
Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot and dead by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.
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The Wolrd War started
The assassination of archduke lead to start the world war 1. Video http://goo.gl/t935A1
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Russia mobilizes
when Russia entered the first world war, it had the largest standing army in the world with a total of 5 million soldiers. Additional link http://goo.gl/fx9DhS -
Battle of mons
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Battle of the Marne
The First Battle of the Marne was fought to the north and east of Paris in early September 1914. Additional link- http://goo.gl/gJmPev -
Lusitania sinks by German forces
Due to the ignorance of the captain of Lusitania on 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Total war and woman
“Total war” demanded the mobilization of entire nations: the drain on the labour pool when millions of men were sent into the military created a need for new workers, a need which could be filled by women. The use of women in propaganda was established early in the war, when posters (and later cinema) became vital state tools in promoting a vision of the war as one where soldiers defended women, as well as children and their homeland.
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War in the air
At the start of the war the land and sea forces used the aircraft put at their disposal primarily for reconnaissance, and air fighting began as the exchange of shots from small arms between enemy airmen meeting one another in the course of reconnoitering. Additional link http://goo.gl/69yDhW -
Battle of loos
The Battle of Loos was the largest British offensive mounted in 1915 on the Western Front during World War I.
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Tactic of trench warfare
Trench warfare, warfare in which opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground. The opposing systems of trenches are usually close to one another. Trench warfare is resorted to when the superior firepower of the defense compels the opposing forces to “dig in” so extensively as to sacrifice their mobility in order to gain protection.
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Battle of verdun
It was fought from 21 February – 18 December 1916 during the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies, on hills north of VerdunsurMeuse in northeastern France.
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Beginning of upheaval
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation.
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Battle of Jutland
It was a naval battle fought by the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe against the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet under ViceAdmiral Reinhard Scheer during the First World War Video- http://goo.gl/VBxd8d
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Battle of the Somme
also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the River Somme in France.
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First tanks
The tank had an interesting role in World War One. The tank was first used at the little known Battle of Flers. It was then used with less success at the Battle of the Somme. Though the tank was highly unreliable – as one would expect from a new machine – it did a great deal to end the horrors of trench warfare and brought back some mobility to the Western Front. Additional link- http://goo.gl/0x6x4m -
The March revolution
The February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar until February 1918) began on March 8, 1917 (or February 23 on the Julian calendar), when demonstrators clamoring for bread took to the streets in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now called St. Petersburg). Additional link- http://goo.gl/VSaH8Y -
U.S. enters the war
On April 6, 1917, the U.S. joined its alliesBritain, France, and Russiato fight in World War I. Under the command of Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France. Video- http://goo.gl/8HYNRw
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Third battle at Ypres
On October 19, 1914, near the Belgian city of Ypres, Allied and German forces begin the first of what would be three battles to control the city and its advantageous positions on the north coast of Belgium during the First World War. Additional link http://goo.gl/7WH32Y -
Battle of Caporetto
On this day in 1917, a combined German and AustroHungarian force scores one of the most crushing victories of World War I, decimating the Italian line along the northern stretch of the Isonzo River in the Battle of Caporetto, also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, or the Battle of Karfreit (to the Germans). Additional link http://goo.gl/gGgCv5 -
Battle of Cambrai
The World War I Battle of Cambrai marked the first largescale use of tanks for a military offensive. Led by General Julian Byng, a British force of nine infantry divisions, five cavalry divisions and three tanks brigades sprung a surprise attack near Cambrai, France, on November 20, 1917.
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Civil war in Russia
The Russian Civil War was to tear Russia apart for three years – between 1918 and 1921. The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin’s Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations. Collectively, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds. Additional link http://goo.gl/Otd1vQ -
The end of Wolrd War 1
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.
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Battle of Cantigny
A small battle by World War I standards, the Battle of Cantigny was America’s first significant battle, and first offensive, of World War I. On its outcome, in part, rode the “amalgamation” question of whether arriving American doughboys would join an independent American field army or serve as replacements in the French and British armies. Additional link- http://goo.gl/ZXL6Om -
Battle of Belleau wood
The first largescale battle fought by American soldiers in World War I begins in Belleau Wood, northwest of the Paris
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Revolutionary forces in Germany
Britain had experience in using troops from the many different German states, especially in creating the Anglo-Hanoverian army during the Seven Years War.The campaign of 1776, the year the Germans arrived, encapsulates the German experience: successful in battles around New York, but made infamous as failures for their loss at the Battle of Trenton
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The Paris peace conference
In the fall of 1918, World War I had not officially ended, but the fighting had stopped. The different countries had agreed to a series of armistices. On January 18, 1919, diplomats from more than two dozen countries gathered in Paris for a conference to discuss how to end the war permanently.The conference lasted a little more than a year. The discussions produced treaties with Germany, Austria, and Bulgaria.
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The treaty of Versailles
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. Germany agreed to pay reparations under the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan, but those plans were cancelled in 1932, and Hitler’s rise to power and subsequent actions rendered moot the remaining terms of the treaty.
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The new map of Europe
A century ago at the beginning of the First World War, the maps of Europe, Asia and Africa looked much different than they do today. After four years of carnage and more than 16 million dead soldiers and civilians, three empires that had lasted for centuries AustroHungarian, Russian and Ottoman gradually ceased to exist and many new nations emerged.
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