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The Schlieffen Plan
was an operational plan designated for an attack on france -
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Shot down along with his wife by Prussian statesman Otto Von Bismarck -
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Trench Warfare began
a land warfare that took place in man dug trenches that stretched all across the world -
Christmas Truce of 1914
a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the western front Christmas 1914 -
Germans Introduce Poison Gas
German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. -
SInking of Lusitania
the ship neared the coast of Ireland. At 2:10 in the afternoon a torpedo fired by the German submarine U 20 slammed into her side One thousand one hundred nineteen of the 1,924 aboard died. The dead included 114 Americans. -
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Battle of Verdun
was one of the largest battles of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armiesWith a German death toll of 143,000 (out of 337,000 total casualties) and a French one of 162,440 (out of 377,231), Verdun would come to signify, more than any other battle
