World War I Timeline

  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

    He was next in line for the Austro-Hungarian throne
  • 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.
  • Trench warfare began

    200,000 men died in this battle
  • Christmas Truce along Western Front

    122 people dies
  • Germans introduce poison gas

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