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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand happen in june 28 1914. Francis Ferdinand's car could go fast enough until it reached this spot but here it was forced to slow down for the turn. Here Princip had taken his stand.
As the car came abreast he stepped forward from the curb, drew his automatic pistol from his coat and fired two shots. The first struck the wife of the Archduke, the Archduchess Sofia, in the abdomen. She was an expectant mother. She died instantly. then the next one hit him -
due to the fact that the person who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand was serbian. Austria blamed then and surbia said no it your own fault.
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They used Trench Warfare to hid away from the other people and give tham an advantage. little did they know that the trenches kill lots of men do to disease and aloso it took time that they didnot have to dig
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It was germany fighting austria and they were losing so germanay told fance and britain that they were pullin g out of the fight.
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British troops bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles. Small number of Marines landed.A decision was taken that if the Navy could not defeat the defenders at the Dardanelles, then the task would be finished by the Army.
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The British ocean liner RMS Lusitania is sunk by German U-boat, U-20
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It was unnessary and a cary on attemped from the first one since the second one didnt work out so well
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1) to capture the city of Verdun and 2) to inflict a much higher casualty count on its French adversary. By the end of the battle (December 1916) the French Second Army had rolled back the German forces around Verdun, but not quite to their initial positions of February 1916.
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Comprising the main Allied attack on the Western Front during 1916, the Battle of the Somme is famous chiefly on account of the loss of 58,000 British troops (one third of them killed) on the first day of the battle, 1 July 1916,
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On this day in 1917, the lethal threat of the German U-boat submarine raises its head again, as Germany returns to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare it had previously suspended in response to pressure from the United States and other neutral countries.
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president Wilson appeared before a joint session of Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Germany in order to "make the world safe for democracy." On April 4, Congress granted Wilson's request.America thus joined the carnage that had been ravaging Europe since 1914. Germany's renewal of unrestricted submarine warfare and the revelation of a proposed German plot to ally with Mexico against the US prompted Wilson's action.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of the war between Russia and Germany in 1918
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they came to gether an relized it was stupid to be fighting the war ans germany took all the blame for it and go tput in debt
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The total deaths of all nations who fought in the war is thought to have been 8.5 million with 21 million being wounded.
