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World War 1
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The formation of the Triple Alliance
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Great Britain joined Russia and France to form an alliance, known as the Triple Entente.
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Australian troops made a landing on a hostile shore along the Gallipopli peninsula in Turkey.
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand (next king of Austria-Hungary) was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia
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Germany declares war on France and invades neutral Belgium
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Germany declares war on Russia.
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Great Britain declares war on Germany and the United States declares it neutrality.
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The Battle of Liege. (signified the first land battle of the war, as the German Second Army crossed the frontier into neutral Belgium to attack France from the North.
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First Battle of the Marne
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First tranches dug on the Western Front
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The US requests that Germany withdraws it military and naval attaches from the Embassy in washington
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The Allies begin an orderly evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
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the First division of the AIF from Egypt began arriving in France
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The British Army suffers the worst single-day death toll in its history as 18,800 soldiers are killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
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The British Army suffers the worst single-day death toll in its history as 18,800 soldiers are killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
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The United States of America declares war on Germany
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The British attempt once more to break through the German lines, this time by attacking positions east of Ypres, Belgium
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In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky overthrow the Provisional Government
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Soviet Russia signs an armstice with Germany
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Prime Minister Hughes puts a second referendum to the Australian people.
he referendum asked:
Are you in favour of the proposal of the Commonwealth Government for reinforcing the Commonwealth Forces overseas? -
The Spring offensive, a series of German attacks along the Western Front in attempt to end WW1
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A combined French and American attack along the Marne marks the first in a series of coordinated Allied counter-offensives on the Western Front.
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At 5:10 am, in a railway car at Compiègne, France, the Germans sign the Armistice which is effective at 11 am-the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.