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Revolution overthrows Austro- Hungarian emperor
From March 1848 through November 1849, the Habsburg Austrian Empire was threatened by revolutionary movements. Much of the revolutionary activity was of a nationalist character. -
France loses Alsace and Lorraine to Germany
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Germany officially unified
Germany was unified with the help of Otto von Bismark, in an attempt to make Prussia a world power. -
Triple alliance formed
Triple Alliance, secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed in May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I. Germany and Austria-Hungary had been closely allied since 1879. -
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Russo Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War, 1904–05, a war between Russia and Japan fought in Korea and Manchuria. Russia's overwhelming defeat halted its Far Eastern expansion and encouraged the anti-czarist movements that led to the Russian revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution of 1917. -
Triple Entente alliance formed
e Entente Cordiale formed the basis of the Triple Entente made between Britain, France, and Russia in 1907; the Triple Entente became a military alliance in 1911. -
Austria- Hungary annexes Bosnia
Austria- Hungary annexed Bosnia which was detested by Russia and Serbia. Germany on the other hand supported Austria- Hungary boosting their confidence but added to rough feelings from Russia, contributing to WWI -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated
The assassination took place in order to combine serbia with Austria- hungary but were later denied resulting directly into world war one. -
Austria declares war on Serbia
They declare war on serbia for killing their Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, begining WWI. -
Schlieffen Plan put into action
In 1914, the Schlieffen Plan was finally put into action. On August 2, the German army invaded Luxembourg and Belgium. To the complete surprise of the German officials, Belgium put up a fight. The German army was not able to move through the country as quickly and easily as they had expected. -
Ottoman Germany alliance
The Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers to form the Triple Alliance with the signing of the August 1914 Turco-German Alliance. Turkey formally entered World War I on October 28, 1914, with the bombing of Russian Black Sea ports. -
Japan declares war on Germany
They did it on behalf of the request from the British prime minister and to hopefully expand their world power. -
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Battle of Tannenberg
The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between the Russian and the German Empires in the first days of World War I. It was fought by the Russian Second Army against the German Eighth Army. -
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Battle of Marne
The First Battle of the Marne marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare that was to characterise World War One. -
Russian army runs out of ammunition
Russia enters the war and begins so many battles that they become overwhelmed and cannot produce enough ammunition. -
Trorsky flees Russia
Leon Trotsky was one of the foremost figures in the Russian Revolution. Trotsky, along with Vladimir Lenin, gave the move for revolution both drive and organisation. Trotsky's leadership during the Russian Civil War probably saved the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917. -
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Battle of Gallipoli
An unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War I. -
Lusitania
the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania, which primarily ferried people and goods across the Atlantic Ocean between the United States and Great Britain, was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sunk. Of the 1,959 people on board, 1,198 died, including 128 Americans. The sinking of the Lusitania enraged Americans and hastened the United States' entrance into World War I. -
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Battle of Verdun
The longest single battle of World War One. The casualties from Verdun and the impact the battle had on the French Army was a primary reason for the British starting the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 in an effort to take German pressure off of the French at Verdun. -
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Battle of Jutland
Was a naval battle fought by the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet against the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet. It was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the war. It was only the third-ever fleet action between steel battleships -
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Battle of Somme
The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles. -
Zimmerman Telegraph found
the text of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America. -
Unrestricted submarine warfare commences
Germany declared the unrestricted warfare ordering attacks on anyone that was trading with Britian. -
Bolsheviks emerge as a political group
Party of workers that were disgusted with the regime. They decided to overthrow the government, making Russia a communist party. -
Tsar nicholas ii abdicate
15 March (Gregorian Calendar) 1917, Nicholas II chose to abdicate. He first abdicated in favour of Tsarevich Alexei, but swiftly changed his mind after advice from doctors that the heir-apparent would not live long apart from his parents, who would be forced into exile. Nicholas drew up a new manifesto naming his brother, Grand Duke Michael, as the next Emperor of all the Russias. He issued the following statement (which was suppressed by the Provisional Government): -
October Revolution
Also known as the Russian Revolution, The October Revolution of 1917. In Apr., 1917, Lenin and other revolutionaries returned to Russia after having been permitted by the German government to cross Germany. The Germans hoped that the Bolsheviks would undermine the Russian war effort. -
US declares War on Germany
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany. On April 6, Congress granted the request and the United States was formally at war with Germany. -
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Battle of Passchendaele
Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud. -
Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild that made public the British support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. -
Vladimir Lenin seizes power over Russia
On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. The provisional government came to power after the February Revolution resulted in the Russian monarchy being overthrown in March 1917. -
Russia- Germany Pact violates Versailles
Russia and Germany made an alliance that ended the peace treaty of versailles, -
influenza epidemic
World War I claimed an estimated 16 million lives. The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus. -
Fourteen Points proposed
President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war. -
Russia signed Treaty of Brest- Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia (the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey), which ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
Armistice Signed
The Allies and Germany signed the Armistice in order to end the fighting of WW1. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates
He was forced to abdicate because of fear of being killed. He was later exiled to Holland. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
Treaty of Saint- Germain
Ratification by Austria and three Principal Allied Powers. The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, was signed on 10 September 1919 by the victorious Allies of World War I on the one hand and by the Republic of German-Austria on the other. -
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New Economic Policy (NEP)
New Economic Policy (NEP), official economic reconstruction program of the USSR from 1921 to 1928. It replaced the economic policies of "war Communism" (1918–21), an emergency program established by Lenin during the civil war. -
Germany stops reparation payments to France
Germany was unable to come up with money and later French and Belgium attacked the ruhr. -
Stalin takes over Russia
After Lenin died in 1924, Stalin eventually outmaneuvered his rivals and won the power struggle for control of the Communist Party. By the late 1920s, he had become dictator of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union Under Joseph Stalin.
