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Assassanation
On this day Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Gavrilo Princip, 19 years old, was burned for his crime. Ferdinand was heir to the throne in the Austrio-Hungarian empire. -
War
On this day Austria declared war on Serbia. They turned down any kind of proposal or conference. At this point Russia had no intentions to fight Germany. -
war
Germany declares war on russia. Germany was allready fighting a two froont war, so they relied on a stratigy to decisivly invade france so they can have forces defending against russia. -
War
Germany declares war on France. it turns out Germany had been planning this since 1897. Germany assumed that France would be an easy country to capture. -
war
Britain declares war. Germanys violation of Belgian territory is what caused this. -
war
Do to alligence to britain. Signed in 1902. Japan declared war on jermany. -
Battle
The battle of Tanneburg Happen between August 26-30. this battle was a great tole to Russia because thousands of men died in combat and over 125000 were taken prisoner. Although Germany won the battle they lost about 13000 men. -
War
this is the day that turky enterd the war. Turky fought with central powers. And helped germany with the naval bonbing of Russia. -
more war
On this day Russia declared war on Turkey -
Sunk
Lusitania was sunk by German u-boats. American citizens were outraged due to the large amount of american casualties. Because of this situation Germany down-sized there u-boat campiegn. -
battle
This is the day that the battle of juntland took place. It was a naval battle between the germans and the British. It was considerd one of the only large scale navel battles of the war. -
peace
on this day an armistice was signed and the war came to an end. With allied forces fighting on, Turkey and Austria-Hungery signed armistices prior to this day. And at 5am in the morning in a railroad car parked in a french forest neer front lines, germany signed an armistice and the war was over.
