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    WW1

    crazy
  • Archduke death

    Archduke death

    July 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot to death with his wife by the Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo.
  • Germany invades Belgium

    Germany invades Belgium

    To execute the Schlieffen Plan, Germany had to go through Belgium in order to invade France.
  • First battle of Marne

    First battle of Marne

    The Allies stopped the German invasion of Paris.
  • The sinking of Lusitania

    The sinking of Lusitania

    A British passenger ship, sunk by a German U-Boat.
  • Battle of Verdun

    Battle of Verdun

    The French held their line against a German offensive until December of the same year, during the longest battle of the war.
  • Battle of Jutland

    Battle of Jutland

    An indecisive naval battle between German and British fleets.
  • Battle of Somme

    Battle of Somme

    A disastrous Allied offensive at the Somme, where Allied casualties numbered in the millions.
  • Landed

    Landed

    U.S. troops landed in Haiti
  • Declaring war

    Declaring war

    Italy declares war on Germany
  • TANKS!

    TANKS!

    Tanks were introduced for the first time by the British in the battle of Somme.
  • End of Somme

    End of Somme

    The Battle of Somme ended
  • AIRPLANES!!

    AIRPLANES!!

    First German Airplnes
  • America

    America

    America Declares war
  • USSR

    USSR

    Russian revolutionaries setup a Communist goverment, attempting to make peace with the Central Powers.
  • Its Over

    Its Over

    World War One is finally over