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France Loses Alsace & Loraine to Germany
France had lost Alsace and Lorraine only 43 years ago in the Franco-Prussian War, where Germany took Alscace & Loraine. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II Abdicates
He ruled the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918 -
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War developed out of the rivalry between Russia and Japan for dominance in Korea and Manchuria. -
Bloody Sunday
Losing a war against Japan in the Far East, czarist Russia is wracked with internal discontent that finally explodes into violence in St. Petersburg in what will become known as the Bloody Sunday Massacre. -
Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia
On October 6, 1908, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary announces its annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, dual provinces in the Balkan region of Europe formerly under the control of the Ottoman Empire. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. -
Russsia Mobilizes army
Russia orders general mobilization of troops. -
Germany invades Belgium
The German attack through Belgium was part of the Sclieffen Plan. -
Start of the Battle of Marne
The First Battle of the Marne marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare that was to characterise World War One. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland -
Start of Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single battle of World War One. -
Start of Battle of the Somme
Was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. -
Zimmerman Telegraph Found
The Zimmermann Telegram was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January, 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany. -
Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicates
Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov was the last Russian Emperor. After his abdication of the
throne the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty came to an end. The tsar's abdication came as a direct result
of the revolution that took place in February of 1917 in Russia. -
U.S. Enters WWI
On April 6, 1917, the U.S. joined its allies: Britain, France, and Russia to fight in World War I -
October Revolution
The second and last major phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which the Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia, inaugurating the Soviet regime. See Russian Revolution of 1917. -
Fourteen Points Propsoed
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations to end World War I. -
Russia Signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russia signed a treaty with the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria) ending its participation in World War I. -
Russian Civil War
Conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies. -
Armistice Signed
An agreement to stop fighting was signed between France, Britain, and Germany on 11th November 1918, bringing four years of fighting in the First World War to an end. -
Treaty of Versailles Signed
Treaty of peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and Associated Powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919. -
Stalin takes over Russia
Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism.
