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WW1
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Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Derdinand was asasnated in bosnia along with his wife after his driver took a wrong turn heading to a hospital. They where illed at close range by a man named Gavrilo Princip who was a part of a terrorist group called the black hand -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
This was the beginning of World War 1 -
Germany declares war on Russia
Germany declared war on Russia in support of Austria and on France because of her alliance with Russia -
The Battle of Mons
The battle was a victory for Germany, as they made the advance of the German army into France. There was a total of 1,600 deaths in nine hours. -
First Battle of the Marne begins
The germans advanced within 30 miles of Paris, but over the next few days the french reinforced with around 6,000 soldiers. The Germans dug in north creating trench warfare. -
The Second Battle of Ypres begins
The German army starts the usage of chemical warfare by launching a chlorine attack on Allied trenches. Around 5,000 French and Algerian troops where killed. By the time it ended it caused around 1,300,000 casualties, including 91,000 deaths. -
The Lusitania is torpetoed by the Germans
A britich ship called the Lusitania is torpetoed by a German u-boat. Nearly 1,200 people where killed, including 128 U.S. citizens. The ship was carring rifle ammo and also artillary shells. -
The Battle of Verdun begins
Over the next ten months, the French and German armies battle caousing over 305,000 dead and 400,000 wounded. The battle would wipe out entire villages and communites in verdon. There where over 10 million shells left after the war and it is said that it will take years to clean the remains of the battle. -
The Battle of Jutland
It was the largest sea battle of the First World War. it sunk 151 British warships against 99 German ships and was the first an only time they went against each other. -
The First Battle of the Somme begins
The British and French forces launched an attack on the German army north of the Somme River in France. This caused serious damage on German positions in France. Nearly 20,000 soldiers died on that same day. The battle lasted four and a half months, and coused a total of around 1 million casualties in total. -
The Russian Revolution
This Revolution overthrew the imperial government and placed the Bolsheviks in power. -
The United states declare war on Germany
The us declared war on Germany because the U.S. president Woodrow wilson said that germany violated its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean ocean witch they had said eairlier. -
Russia signs armistice with Germany
Russia withdraws from the war because they saw it as a major obstacle to their plan of providing food and land to their people. -
Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany
They sighned the treaty because they realized that the new Soviet state was too weak to survive a continuation of the war. -
The end of World War I
Germany signs the Armistice at Compiègne, ending World War I. Germany did this because their armies were defeated and their hungry citizens were beginning to rebel.