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Archduke Assasanted!!!
Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of austria was assassinated in bosnia by gavrilo princip . Since princip was serbian austria thought that serbia was behind these attacks. -
Austria Declares war on serbia
Austria was furious with serbia so they declared war on serbia for which they thought that they were the ones behind the assasanation of their archduke -
Germany invades Belgium
Germany invades belgium which brought england into the war setting of a domino effect of more and more countries joing the war, -
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Battle of verdun
Was a big battle between germany and grnace which was important and eventually ran in a stalement with many deaths -
The Zimmerman note
The zimmerman note was supposely a note from gemany telling mexico to declare war against the USA -
America joins the war
America declares war on the central powers becuase 7 american merchant ships are sunken and because the zimmerman note saying that mexico should declare war on the United States.
This is important because america is a very powerful army joing a war of the worlds heavy weights. -
troops begin to head home
demobilzation begins and millions of troops set course for home this signifies the end of war -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treat of versallies is what ended the war The treaty of versailles also gave land in china to japan insteas of to china. The Treaty cut the German military and also distrubuted territory. The treaty also blamed Germany for the war