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France loses Alsace and Loraine to Germany
Alsace and Lorraine is where France attacked the German army but were defeated by the Germans. France later had got Alsace and Lorraine back through the Versailles Treaty. -
Russo-Japanese War
This war expanded out of the competition between Russia and Japan for dominion in Korea and Manchuria. The Russo-Japanese War had started on Feb. 8, 1904, when the central Japanese rapid launched a wonder attck and annoy on the Russian naval at Port Arthur. -
Bloody Sunday
On the month of January 22, 1905, a large group of workers conducted by the profound priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the Czar's Winner Palace in St. Petersburg to compose their demands. Imperial efforts opened fire on the demonstrators ended up killing and wounding hundresds of people. Plenty of Strikes and Riots had broken out throughout the country in an incense responce. -
Austria-Hungary Annexes Bosnia
On the month of October 6, 1908, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary issued its annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, double provinces in the Balkan region of Europe already under the control of the Ottoman Empire. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferninand
This event had sparked the disruption of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungarian Empire, and his wife were shot to death by a Seribian nationalist, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, in Sarajevo, Bosnia on June 28, 1914. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
A month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his of Austria were shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria demands war on Serbia, completely starting World War I. -
Russia mobilizes army
In the year of 1914 the Russian government studied Germany to be their biggest threat to its teriitory. This was assisted by Germany's decision to form the Triple Alliance. Beneath the charge of this military alliance with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy all admitted to back each other up if either of the countries were getting attcked by either France or Russia. The Russian Army was the largest army in the whole world in the year of 1914. Although, Russia's roads and railraods were poor. -
Schlieffen Plan put into action
This Schlieffen Plan was the name that was given after World War I to the rational trailing the German invasion of FRance and Begium in the month Auguest 1914. -
Germany invades Belgium
German invasion of Belgium was a military crusade which started on the 4 of Auguest 1914. The German governments declared war on Belgium on the 4 of August and troops marched across the border and began to attck the Belgian city. -
Start of the Battle of Marne
This particualar marked the start of World War I and Trench Warfare. This showed allies between the Britians and the French also with the Germans absence of allies. This was a huge turning point for the Von Schlieffen Plan. -
Sinking of the Lustitania
On the date of May 7, 1915 the Lusitania is abolished without any type of cautioning by a German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland. Many passengers and crew were drowned. -
Start of the battle of Verdun
In the Western Front, the German 5th Army attacks the French 2nd Army north of the historic city of Verdun.Erish Falkenhayn, the Germans under Chief of the Gernal Staff, seek to "bleed" the French Army to death by targeting the cherished city. -
Start of the battle of the Somme
The French and British attck on the Germans right along the Somme River in France in the month of July 1916. Battle for both parties that resulted in stalemate. -
Zimmermann Telegram found
Zimmermann Telegram from germany to Mexico in 1917 encouraging the country Mexico to fight against the United Sates. However, Mexico declined the offer due to internal rebellions, but telegram infuriated the U.S. and encouraged them to enter the war against the Germans. -
Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicates
In the month of March in the year of 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdiate. -
The U.S. enters World War I
The president of this time Woodrow Wilson had tried to keep the U.S. out of the war but later declared was on German littel after telegram from Germany to Mexico asking for allience against the US. fueledanti-German Sentiment, Issued 14 pointes. Later creating the League of Nations and helped with the Treaty of Versailles. -
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was to tear Russian apart for three years. The civil war occured because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed lenin's Bolsheviks. -
October Revolution
Two Revolutions the first of which in Febuary, overthrew the imperial governement and second of which, in October. By 1917 the bond between the Tsar and most of the Russian people had been broken. -
Fourteen Points proposed
A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for acheiving a lasting peace after World War I. -
Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
On the date of March 3, 1918, in Brest-Litovsk, located in moder-day Belarus near the Polish border, Russia signs a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War I. -
Armistice Signed
The Armistice of November 11, 1918 was an armistice during World War I between the allies and Germany after the location at which it was signed and agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front. It went inot effect at 11 a.m. Paris time on November 11, 1918. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates
An ineffective war-time leader, he lost the support of the army, abdicated in the month November and in the year of 1918. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
June 28th, 1919 the German land got taken away disarmament, submarines, and land settlements. This treaty was the peace signed right after World War I ahd just ended in the year of 1918. It was signed at the Vast Versailles Palace near Paris.
