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The Black Hand was a secret society committed to ridding Bosnia of Austrian rule. The Serbian kill him and his wife and Austria-Hungary really was mad at Serbia.
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Austria gave a ultimatum to Serbia but Serbia didn't match all of the demands and counter offered.
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Germany invades Belgium and Great Britain declares war on Germany. After they invaded Belgium the got the plan for Western Front.
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On September 5, the Allies attacked the germans northeast of Paris in the valley of the Marne River.
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Russians push Austria-Hungary back into Austria. With the help of Germany the pushed the Russians back to Russia.
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The Allies attack the Turks so they could gain the advantage of Austria and Germany but towards May it became a bloody stalemate niether side gained any ground. In December the Allies gave up the campaign and began to evacuate.
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The Germans sent an attack against the French near Verdun each side lost more than 300,000 men.
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The British army tried to relieve the pressure on the French British Forces attacked the Germans northwest pf Verdun. In the first day more than 20,000 British Soldiers were killed, by the time the battle ender each side has suffered over half a million casualties.
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The Germans annonced a policy called unrestricted submarine warfare which means any boat that comes near Britain will be destoryed without warning.
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After two attacks by Germany and the telegram President Wilson asked Congress ito declare war and U.S.A. joined the war.
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The Germans got one last final push towards Paris. More 6,000 Germans cannons opened the offensice with the largest artillery attack of the entire war. But when Germany was withen 40 miles of Paris, Germanys army was weakened. The allies pushed a counter attack against them.
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After Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power. Lenin insisted on ending his country's invovlement in the war.
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The new government of Germany
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This is the treaty that ended World War 1 it was signed in Paris.