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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip.
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A Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, had gotten arrested on June, 28, 1914.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip. -
On August 4th 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany. It was a decision that is seen as the start of World War One. Britain, led by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, had given Germany an ultimatum to get out of Belgium by midnight.
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At six o'clock in the evening on July 23, 1914, nearly one month after the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a young Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Baron Giesl von Gieslingen, ambassador of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Serbia, delivers an ultimatum to the Serbia
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At six o’clock in the evening on July 23, 1914, nearly one month after the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a young Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Baron Giesl von Gieslingen, ambassador of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Serbia, delivers an ultimatum to the Serbian foreign ministry.
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One month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War.
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France Mobilizes, Germany Declares War on Russia. When Russia's Tsar Nicholas II agreed to order general mobilization on the afternoon of July 30, 1914, he unwittingly started the clock on German mobilization.
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At this point Canada’s Regular Forces, the Royal Canadian Regiment, were ordered to be ready for mobilization.
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When Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II agreed to order general mobilization on the afternoon of July 30, 1914, he unwittingly started the clock on German mobilization. The Schlieffen Plan concentrated German forces in the west for an attack on Russia’s ally France.
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Four days after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Germany had declared war on Russia.
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Germany declares war on Russia. France and Belgium begin full mobilization.
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The German government made proposals to secure British military support to Belgium should Germany invade.
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Britain enacts the Defense of the Realm Act granting unprecedented powers to the government to control the economy and daily life.
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In the thoughts of creating a stronger and much more stable government, President Hindenburg had agreed to make Adolf Hilter chancellor of Germany.
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The Nuremberg Race Laws:In the Reich's early years, anti-Jewish regulations were drawn up by a Nazi and the law become effective on the day after its promulgation.
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A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somali land in December gave Benito Mussolini the chance to reject all arbitration offers and the Italians invaded Ethiopia.
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The Anti-Comintern Pact agreement had first taken place between Germany and Japan (Nov. 25, 1936) and then between Italy, Germany, and Japan (Nov. 6, 1937), specifically against the Soviet Union.
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Hitler pointed out that Austria was isolated diplomatically and could not halt a Nazi invasion. He was willing to amnesty the jailed Nazis but not to hand over the police, but to capture them instead.
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The German occupation of Czechoslovakia began with the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovak army on French territory, yet full recognition was not reached.
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Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, breaking the agreement it had signed with Great Britain and France the year before in Munich, Germany. The invasion jolted British and French leaders and convinced them thatAdolf Hitler, the German chancellor, could not be trusted to honor his agreements and was likely to keep committing aggression until stopped by force or a massive deterrent.
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Britain and France are at war with Germany following the invasion of Poland two days ago.
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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War and the most important. Canada was a major participant: this country’s enormous effort in the struggle was crucial to Allied victory.
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On September 7 Parliament met in special session. On September 9 it approved support to Britain and France. On September 10 King George VI announced that Canada had declared war.
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German bombers and fighters struck a British shipping convoy in that very Channel, while 70 more bombers attacked dockyard installations in South Wales.
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The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been core policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920s.
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The Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the United States, bombing warships and military targets in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King issued a series of orders-in-council to evacuate all people of Japanese origin to protect the country.
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On this day in 1942, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is brought to a standstill in the battle for control of North Africa.
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The raid took place on the northern coast of France, it started at 5:00 am and by 10:50am the allied commanders were forced to call retreat.
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This was one of the major battles in the second world war in the eastern fronts, in which Germany fought with the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
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this was a 20-month Mediterranean campaign which led to the liberation of Italy during the Second World War, which Canada had a big part towards.
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June 6, 1944, the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. Within three months, the northern part of France would be freed and the invasion force would be preparing to enter Germany, where they would meet up with Soviet forces moving in from the east.
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On this day in 1945, the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France.
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The United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese city of Hiroshima that had killed and injured many people of the city.
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The United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese city of Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.
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1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea.