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Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy form the Triple Alliance
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Triple Entente Formed
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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Germany declares war on Russia, then on France
on the 1st, Germany declared war on Russia. Two days later, Germany also declared war on France -
Great Britain declares war on Germany
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French and British Troops disrupt Schlieffen Plan.
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First Trenches dug on the eastern front
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Allied troops land on the Gallipoli Peninsula
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The United States of America declares war on Germany.
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18,000 soldiers are killed
The worst single-day death toll in Britain's history. 18,800 soldiers killed -
11:00 11/11/1918 WWI ends
At 5:10 am, in a railway car at Compiègne, France, the Germans sign the Armistice which is effective at 11 am--the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Fighting continues all along the Western Front until precisely 11 o'clock, with 2,000 casualties experienced that day by all sides. Artillery barrages also erupt as 11 am draws near as soldiers yearn to claim they fired the very last shot in the war.