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WWI
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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip (teenage Serbian nationalist from the terrorist group "black hand") gun shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria that sparked the outbreak of World War I -
Germany invades Belgium
Germany wanted to attack France, and Belgium was their "free passage". Germany first send a letter to Belgium demanding them to give them a free passage, but they refuse because they were neutral, and because of that Germany forcefully occupied the country as an enemy, attacking it. -
Trench Warfare
It consist in big and large hole on the ground were soldiers hide from their enemies and have supplies like small arms fire and artillery. It was not efficient because people died on the trenches by infections, hard conditions, diseases and also when they wanted to attacked they get shot by their enemies on other trenches. -
Lusitania Sinks
A German submarine torpedoed without any warning the British ocean liner "Lusitania" and finally sinking it, (it carried American passengers. This was one of the reasons why United States join the WWI -
Battle of Verdun
It was a war between German and French armies on the Western Front. Germans planned that this war was going to be a battle of attrition, but it turns out that was considered one of the largest and longest battles in WWI, with French victory -
Zimmerman Telegram
With the British intelligence, Germany proposed Mexico that in case they enter to war against United States and they have their side, they will return them the "lost provinces" during the American-Mexican War. Mexico decline the offer, but make United States entered the war. -
United States enter the War
Even though many Americans did not want U.S enter the war (neutrality), it did eventually because of all the maritime warfare after the sinking of the Lusitania, their bad relationship with German, and many other reasons... So; it joined their allies: France, Britain and Russia, declaring war to Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
Germany and Russia Peace (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk)
In Russia a new government was installed (communism-by Bolshevik), so Germans decided to sign a peace treaty with them, and the treaty benefit them in land and their army. This cause problems with U.S, France, and Great Britain. -
Armistice Day
Germany finally surrendered, and signed an armistice agreement with the allies for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front. -
Treaty of Versailles
This was a peace treaty that lead to the end of WWI. It was not so convenient to Germany because with this treaty they had to pay all the reparations and damages after the war (taxes), and cause German expansion, economic downfall and hyperinflation, vulnerability for the German people, and cause years after the WWII.
