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France had lost Alsace and Lorraine only 43 years ago in the Franco-Prussian War, where Germany took Alscace & Loraine.
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He ruled the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918
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The Russo-Japanese War developed out of the rivalry between Russia and Japan for dominance in Korea and Manchuria.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
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Russia orders general mobilization of troops.
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The German attack through Belgium was part of the Sclieffen Plan.
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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.
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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
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The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single battle of World War One.
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Was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire.
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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.
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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
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On April 6, 1917, the U.S. joined its allies: Britain, France, and Russia to fight in World War I
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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.
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The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations to end World War I.
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Russia signed a treaty with the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria) ending its participation in World War I.
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Conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies.
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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.
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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.
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Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism.
