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World War 1
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. This would be the main cause of WW1. -
World War 1 begins
Russia, France, and Britain are up against Germany and Austria-Hungary. A-H first aks Germany for help to attack Serbia, then Russia moboizes to support Serbai. Germany later declares war on France and Belgium. -
First battle of Ypres
First World War battle fought for the strategic town of Ypres in western Belgium in October and November 1914. The German and Western Allied attempts to secure the town from enemy occupation included a series of further battles in and around the West Flanders Belgian municipality. -
Italy joins the war
Italy desides they feel like fighting too. They will eventually declare war on Germany. -
Bulgeria
Bulgeria, A-h, and Germany invade Serbia. Bulgeria dec;ares war on Serbia. The United Kingdom declares war on Bulgeria. France declares war on Bulgeria. Then Italy and Russla declare war on Bulgeria. Wow Bulgeria was some bed luck. -
The Gallipoli Campaign ends in an Allied defeat and an Ottoman victory
The French and British join forces to try and invade the Ottoman capital in hopes of capturing it to secure a safe sea route to Russia. The Allies failed at their attempt and manycasualties were suffered on both sides. -
Battle of Verdun
It was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February to 18 December 1916, on hilly terrain north of the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. It ended with a French tactical victory. -
Battle of Somme.
The battle saw the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army mount a joint offensive against the German Army, which had occupied a fairly large part of the north of France since its invasion of the country in August 1914. -
US Joins the war
On April 1, 1917, after the Zimmermann telegraph enrages the United States of America thye decide to join the war and declare war on Germany. The Germans basically promissed land back to Mexico that the US had tacken. -
Battle of Caporetto
The Battle of Caporetto took place from 24 October to 19 November 1917, near the town of Kobarid (now in Slovenia), on the Austro-Italian front of World War I. The battle was named after the Italian name of the town of Kobarid (known as Karfreit in German). -
Russia signs an armistice with Germany
After some revolutions within Russia, Russia withdraws from the war and signs a peace treaty with Germany. -
Battle of Megiddo. The British conquer Palestine.
The Battle of Megiddo was the final Allied offensive of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. After forces of the Arab Revolt attacked the Ottoman lines of communication, distracting the Ottomans, British and Indian infantry divisions attacked and broke through the Ottoman defensive lines in the sector adjacent to the coast in the set-piece Battle of Sharon. -
The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros.
Concluded on 30 October 1918, ended the hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I. It was signed by the Ottoman Minister of Marine Affairs Rauf Bey and the British Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, on board HMS Agamemnon in Moudros harbor on the Greek island of Lemnos. -
Treaty of Versailles between the Allies and Germany: the Peace Conference opens in Paris
The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918. It took place in Paris in 1919 and involved diplomats from more than 32 countries and nationalities. Germany got all the blame. -
First meeting of the League of Nations held in London. Official end of World War I
An intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. The main purpose for this organization was to prevent future wars, which would fail.
