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France loses Alsace & Lorraine to Germany
The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after it annexed most of Alsace and the Moselle department of Lorraine following its victory in the Franco-Prussian War. This gave some extra land to germany to use later. -
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Russo Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. The public became unhappy with the czar after the loss of this war -
Russin Bloody Sunday
Well on its way to losing a war against Japan in the Far East, czarist Russia is wracked with internal discontent that finally exploded into violence. On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. Strikes and riots broke out across the country. -
Austria-Hungary Annexed Bosnia
On October 6, 1908, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary announces its annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The decision was more or less a stopgap to preserve the delicate balance of power in Europe. -
The Assassination of archduke franz ferdinand
This caused austria hungary to declare war on serbia causing a domino effect of delarings of war until most of europe was at war. -
Russia Mobilizes Army For WWI
On July 28, 1914, 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. Russian forces mobilized to austrian borders since they where allied with serbia. Germany declared war on russia after russia declared war on austria which lead to most of europe getting involved. -
Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia
On July 28, 1914, 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. -
Germany invades Belgium
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The Schlieffen Plan put into action
The Schlieffen Plan was created by General Count Alfred von Schlieffen in December 1905. The Schlieffen Plan was the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilise her forces near the German border. The execution of the Schlieffen Plan led to Britain declaring war on Germany on August 4th, 1914. -
The Start of the Battle of Marne
The World War I First Battle of the Marne featured the first use of radio intercepts and automotive transport of troops in wartime. Germans had to retreat. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
It ended many american lives which pushed america closer to joining WWI -
The Start of the Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun, fought from 21 February – 18 December 1916, was one of the largest battles of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies. The German 5th Army attacked the defences of the Région Fortifiée de Verdun. -
Start of the Battle of Somme
It was one of the largest battles of the First World War. On the first day alone, the British suffered more than 57,000 casualties. -
Zimmerman Telegram
On this day in 1917, 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. Urged the U.S. to enter the war. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates
The throne of nicholas was taken by revolutionaries leading to people fighting for the throne. -
U.S. Enters World War 1
On April 6, 1917, the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I. This gave the allies extra recources to work with to fight the germans, automans, and italians. -
The October Revolution
It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917 (by the Julian or Old Style calendar, which corresponds to 7 November 1917 in the Gregorian or New Style calendar). It led to new leadership that took russia out of the war. -
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The Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. -
Fourteen Points proposed
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
Russia signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers. It ended russian involvement in world war 1. -
Armistice Signed
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany – also known as the Armistice of Compiègne after the location in which it was signed – and the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front. The armistice officially ended WWI. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II's Adbication
With Germany actively seeking an armistice and revolution threatening, calls for Kaiser Wilhelm II to abdicate grew in intensity. Wilhelm was himself deeply reluctant to make such a sacrifice, instead expressing a preference to lead his armies back into Germany from the Western Front. Upon being informed by his military advisers that the army could not be relied upon not to harm him Wilhelm abandoned the notion. Germany got new leadership and surrendered ending WW1. -
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of 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. -
Stalin takes over Russia
Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state.
