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Archduke Francis Ferdinand Assassination
Two bullets were fired by an angry servian. This sparked the first world war. -
Austria Hungry Declares War on Russia
Thsi was one month after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand begining the first war. This caused their allies to help them causing more wars like the Germany and Russia -
Germany declares war on Russia
Russia mobilized along the German border. Russia's mobilization amounted to a declaration of war. On August 1, German government declare war on Russia. -
Germany declares war on France
In World War I, Germany declared war on France as part of a long-held strategy called the Schlieffen Plan. The Schlieffen Plan required German troops to organize on the frontier of Belgium, a neutral country, with the idea to invade France -
Germany Invades Belgium
Germany went through Belgium in oder to outflank the French armies and quickly capture Paris. But Belgium had close ties with England allowing them to move faster and cature the mainland first. -
German U-Boats sink the Lusitania
There isn't a confirmed reason, but they think that it was due to the fact that Germany wanted to provoke war, and the U-Boat captain was convinced that the Lusitania was carrying armaments from America to Britain. -
The Zimmerman Note was discovered
It was created so when it was sent to someone that person only knew what it meant. What I mean by that is if a enemy got ahold of it they would not know what it meant. It was a combitnation of numbers. -
Germany Announces unrestricted submarine warfare
submarine will attack any vessel carrying a flag of its enemies, its enemies' allies, or others suspected of giving aid to an enemy, without warning or provocation. The doctrine applies to any vessel. -
u.s. declares war on germany
Germany kept violating the sussex pledge and because it sank numerous ships including the U.S. ships and using the u-boat (submarine) unrestrictedly. And the bombing pearl harbor caused the U.S. to declare war -
Russian Monarchy is overthrown
They had a weak goverment and then they attackeded them. Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. -
Russia signs treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. They did this because they wanted to end as much war as possible. -
Comgress passed the Sedition Act
Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. The Sedition Act of 1918 stated that people or countries cannot say bad things about the government or the war. -
Germany signs the treaty of Versailles
Was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 7 May 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties.
