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Assassination of Archduke franz ferdinand
Destined for the austrian hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife sophie went to sarajevo. during hi stime there while he was parading through the streets and greeting the people in his open top car several members of the blcak hand( a nationalist group) planned out his assaination. there first few attempts were unseccesful. until the car got off course and ended up in a random alley way were he was shot as well as his wife and they both died. -
declaring of wars
it stared with autria hungry declaring war on serbia after the assination but then it quicly exilated due to the many allinces. first germany declared war on russia ,France and Belgium. Then,Britain declares war on Germany. furthermore,Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
France and Britain declare war on Austria-Hungary.but the unided states remained neutral. -
Germany invades Belguim
germany invated belguim luxemburg and the netherlands. netherland capulated after six days and belguim after 18. after 3 weeks france and britian sent over thier trosps in order to help defend belguim an dteh other places under attack. -
battle of marne
happend between german, british, and french army. after belguim was envaded. germany gained a massive advantage from this battle. The battle was only 30 miles away from paris. happened within the western front trenches. -
sinking of the lusitania
The lusitania was a british and american passanger boat.it was sunk on its way to liverpool by a german U- boat. technicly ,germany broke one of the war laws killing almost 2,000 peopel in the prosses including american people. little did germany know the boat was and descise and was secretly carrieing war matterials. this was one of americas final straws and gave them a good reson to enter the war -
battle of jutland
was a naval battle between germany and brittish, 151 british ships and 99 german ships.both sides clamed victory. was teh biggest naval battle of world war one. -
zimmerman note
The zimmerman note was written in order to convince mexico to get involved with the war by helping to get america involved in the war. and help them invade america. this was a coded not that was latter published and helped push america into the war anyway.in exchange for putting america into the war they woudl give mexico thier land back. -
The united states enters war
for a very long time the U.S refused to enter teh war for many underlying resons, they were gaining to much money from selling materials to both sides, they were far away from the war, and they didnt want to fight thier own family members. they joined teh war after the sinking of the lusatinia, the zimmerman notes, and the fact that germany was becoming too powerful and tehy wanted to end the war. -
world war one ends
the treaty of versallies was what truely ended the war it put the majority of the blame on germany and made them pay for thier action. only italy, france, britian, and the U.s were invited to this meating and got to sign the treaty. -
paris peace confrence
was a formal meeting various allies including United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France, and other Allied powers, that talked about teh terms of peace after the war.