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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
only e few hours after escaping a bomb assassation, Gavrilo Princip assassinates the duchess of Hohenberg and the Archduke Franz Ferdinand , the heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown. one month later, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. -
WW1 began
World War I, often known as the First World War, was a world struggle that lasted from 1914 to 1918 and is seen as one of the bloodiest wars in history. It is sometimes shortened as WWI or WW1, and some people also know it as the "Great War" or the "War to End All Wars." -
Japan goes to war
for Japan starting a war with Germany
Germany is now at war with Japan According to the Emperor of Japan, Germany's actions in the Far East, especially their agreement to support Britain's army well as their "warlike preparations" that threaten Japanese trade, were the main causes of the war. -
Battle of the Marne
From September 5 to September 12, 1914, the First Battle of the Marne took place. There were many battles that took place all along the Marne River Valley. The Army won the battle against the western German army as a result. -
Herbert Hoover takes the Helm of the Commission for Relief in Belgium
In October 1914, Page asked for help from Hoover for a much bigger problem: the food shortages and suffering in the little nation of Belgium. Hoover began the Commission for Recovery in Belgium and rose to the position of its chairman. -
The first use of poison gas
The British line on the northern end of the Ypres salient was killed by a wave of vaporising gas on April 22, 1915, at 5 p.m. German expert soldiers released the gas from bottles buried in the ground, causing panic and inspiring a new kind of weapon. -
RMS Lusitania sunk
A German U-boat attacked the RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915. The German submarine U-20 opened fire without notice as the luxury passenger ship traveled across the Atlantic from New York to Liverpool. -
Battle of Verdun
during the battle of Verdun , a large German army was pushed back by the french ( February 21- December 18 , 1916) one of the wars longest deadliest battles, it resulted in around 400,000 French and 350,000 German deaths. -
Battle of Jutland
During the First World War, the German Navy's High Seas Fleet, led by Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, and Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Naval Sir John Jellicoe, fought in a naval battle known as the Battle of Jutland. -
The Battle of Somme
The British Empire and the French Third Republic battled the German Empire in the Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme offensive, during the First World War. It lasted on both sides of the upper parts of the Somme River in France between 1 July and 18 November 1916. -
Russian Revolution
The First World War marked the start of the Russian Revolution, a period of political and social change in the former Russian Empire. Following two successive revolutions and a bloody civil war during this time, Russia destroyed its monarchy and moved to a socialist system of governance. -
United States Declares war
on April 6,1917 u.s declared war on Germany due to Germany attacking a us passenger ship and the reintroduction of unrestricted submarine use. Germany also invades Belgium. -
Russia leaves the war
Russia signs a peace deal with the Central Powers on March 3, 1918, at the city of Brest-Litovsk, which is today's Ukraine and is not far from the Polish border. This marks the end of Russia's involvement in World War I. -
Allies Advance
The First World War was finished by the huge German offensives known as the Hundred Days Offensive. The Central Powers' gains from the German spring push were undone when the Allies pushed them back, starting with the Battle of Amiens on the Western Front. -
Germany signs the Armistice
The Western Front Armistice. After more than four years of awful fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the Western Front's guns finally stopped shooting on November 11, 1918. The truce between Germany and the Allies was the first step in ending World War I.