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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated
On the 28th of June 1914 a planed assassination was done by a Serbian man named Gavrilo Princip. Archduke Franz Ferdinand went to Bosnia with his wife, while they were traveling in a car Gavrilo shot the Archduke and his wife which lead to start world war 1 -
Germany declares war on Belgium
The German invasion of Belgium was a military campaign which began on 4 August 1914. Germany had to take over Belgium for there inbetween France which was one of Germanys greatest enemies. -
Britain declares war on Germany
After Austria-hungry declared war on serbia more and more conttrys got involved to this war. On the 4th of Augest 1914 Britain saw Germany to be a risk. The only opstion they had left was to go war with them and stop there invation of Euope. -
third battle of ypres
The Third Battle of Ypres was the major British offensive battle. It was planned to break through the strongly fortified and in-depth German defences enclosing the Ypres salient, a protruding bulge in the British front line, with the intention of sweeping through to the German submarine bases on the Belgian coast. -
Gallipoli landing
The landing at Anzac cove is also known as the landing at Gaba Tepe, and the Turkish also called it the Ariburnu battle. Australia and Newzealnd attacked the beachs of Gallipoli, the anzacs came with massive boats but landed with small ones. With the Anzacs hopeing to land safely an attack came from the turkish force leaveing hungreds of soliders killed. -
Battle of the lone Pine
Battle of Lone Pine was one one of the most famous assaults of the Gallipoli campaign, the Battle of Lone Pine was originally intended as a diversion from attempts by New Zealand and Australian units to force a breakout from the ANZAC perimeter on the heights of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971. -
Last of the Allied troops evacuated from gallipoli
From the 8th to the 20th of December 1915, a total of 90,000 allied troops were evacuated from the Gallipoli Peninsula. Brigadier General Monash wrote about the upcoming evacuation. The official report of the evacuation was published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. 3, 10 January 1916. The Gazette is available on line at the National Library of Australia. -
battle of fromells
The battle of Fromelles on 19 July 1916 was a bloody initiation for Australian soldiers to warfare on the Western Front. Soldiers of the newly arrived 5th Australian Division, together with the British 61st Division, were ordered to attack strongly fortified German front line positions near the Aubers Ridge in French Flanders. The attack was intended as a feint to hold German reserves from moving south to the Somme where a large Allied offensive had begun on 1 July. -
Battle of Pozieres
The Battle of Pozières was a two-week struggle for the French village of Pozières and the ridge on which it stands
The Australian divisions of the Anzac Corps, having served in Gallipoli, were primarily given the task of capturing the Pozieres Ridge, which had in fact been intended for capture on the first day of the Somme Offensive. -
the bolshevik revolution begins
The Russian revolution is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismalted the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventaul rise of the soviet Union. They had to fall out of the war to deal with there own problems but Russia had collapsed with the abdication of emperor Nicholas II -
USA enter the war
Amercia knew the consaqueneses that would happan in wold war, they tried to keep peace with both side. It was soon broken after Germany tried to convince Mexico to attack America, and soon a vote was put up in the U.S senete if America should join the war againest the Triple Alliance. The vote was that 82 to 6 that they should join the war. -
First conscription referendum held in Australia
During the second half of World War One, the First Australian Imperial Force experienced a shortage of men as the number of men volunteering to fight overseas declined and the casualty rate increased. At the time, military service within the Commonwealth of Australia and its territories was compulsory for Australian men, but that requirement did not extend to conflict outside of Australia. -
second conscription referendum
Enlistment for the war continued to fall, and in 1917 Hughes called for another referendum on the conscription issue. This conscription campaign was just as heated as the first, with the most prominent anti-conscription activist being the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Daniel Mannix. -
German spring offensive
The Germans had three major attacks on the Western Front, in late March, April and May 1918, known collectively as the "Kaiserschlacht" (Kaiser's Battle). Using troops released from the Eastern Front, following the revolution and collapse of the Russian Armies in late 1917, the German General Staff attempted to win the war before the Americans arrived -
Battle of the Somme begins
At 7:30 a.m., the British launch a massiveattack against the German forces in the Somme River region of France. At this battle trenchs were made as a battle tactic the only way to a ttack was leave your trench and invaid the enimeys. After days in the trenchs the landscape was a mess like rats everywhere, dead bodys and shells and wires, the only thing that survived were the popeys that remind us the horror of world war 1 -
allied counter offensive
In the spring and summer of 1918, replenished by new divisions transferred hurriedly from the East after the crushing defeat of Russia, the German army launched a bold new campaign on the Western Front. Appearances, however, were deceptive. Imperial Germany, as many army staff officers admitted, was playing its 'last card', and after initial successes, the Glossary - opens new windowLudendorff offensive ran out of steam. -
Armistice signed
As the war was comeing to a end a push came manyly from the British, French and American armies. The alliance between the Central Powers began to collapse. At the time
Turkey signed an armistice at the end of October, Austria-Hungary followed on November 3. Germany began to crumble and fell. There only option left was to surender and give victory to the allied powers, the war ended at exactly the 11th of the 11th 1918.
