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Otto Von Bismarck created the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
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Otto von Bismarck was forced to resign by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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A plan started by Great Britain, and included France and Russia.
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Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, causing more tension in the Balkan region.
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Submarines were invented by Cornelius Drebbel in the seventeenth century, but were first used by Germany later.
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The Western Front became deadlocked and riddled with war.
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Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip of the Serbian Black Hand Nationalist Society.
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Austria made an ultimatum with Serbia; Serbia knew ignoring it would cause war so they had an international conference.
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Germany declares war on Russia because of rising tensions due to Russia's military mobilization.
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Germany declares war on France due to Russia's alliance with France.
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The Allies retaliated on Germany, causing the collapse of the Schlieffen Plan
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Perhaps the single most important event of the war, according to the textbook, the Battle of Marne left the German Schlieffen Plan in ruins. It consisted of the Allies versus Germany.
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Parallel trenches were first dug on the Western Front for soldiers to fight out of.
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The Dardanelles Strait had been attempted to be captured by Great Britain, Australian, New Zealand, and France through the Gallipoli Campaign.
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Germany used its unrestricted sumbarine warfare to sink a British passenger submarine known as the Lusitania.
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Russia struggles with having enough resources. They had not industrialized, and had difficulty competing with Western Europe. Also, supplies shipments were intercepted by foreign nations.
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Germany attacks in Verdun against the French and were attacked by G. Britain in the Somme Valley.
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U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany after Germany resisted his protests to unrestricted submarine warfare.
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The British attacked Germany in the Somme Valley.
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Germany announced its use of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, despite warning from U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
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Germany sent the Zimmerman Note/Telegram to Mexico, saying to join forces with Germany and then Germany would give Mexico its land back from the U.S.
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Czar Nicholas of Russia steps down due to civil unrest.
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Created by Woodrow Wilson in January 1918 in the midst of WWI; plan for permanent/long-lasting peace; FIRST FOUR = end to secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, and reduced national armies and navies #5 = adjustment of colonial claims with fairness toward colonial peoples #6-13 specific suggestions for changing borders and creating new nations/self-determination #14 = “general association of nations” for collaboration and protection regardless of size of nation
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Germany and Russia ended their war with this treaty.
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It was the last major German offense on the Western Front. Still Allies v. Germany
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Signed by French Commander Foch and a new German representative in a railway car, the Armistice ended fighting.
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A peace convention in the Palace of Versailles (where the Treaty of Versailles was born) featuring the Big Four: Georges Clemenceau (France), Woodrow Wilson (U.S.), Vittorio Orlando (Italy), David Lloyd George (G. Brit).
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Created at the Paris Peace Conference