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Assassination Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was in Sarajevo being escorted when shot this act enraged the city and his followers. In which this lead the "July Crisis". Then this caused a encouragement towards Serbian in which lead to the foot-steps of war. -
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Start of the War and the End
The start of WW1 was caused by many things including alliances, imperialism, militarism and,nationalism. Also caused by the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. -
WW1 Begins
On this date Germany invades Belgium. Germany attacked because Belgium wanted to stay neutral during the war. When Germany attacked Belgium decided to pick up their weapons ans join the Allies. But Belgium's army was no match for Germany. -
Italy Joins Allies/Greece Joins Central
Italy joins the allies and creates a front in the Alps. Also Bulgaria joins the central powers. And Greece joins the allied powers which expandes the war into many places outside of the starting countries. The United States intended to remain neutral but ended up helping out with the allies. -
U.S. Joins the War
The United States congress approves for the initial attack on Germany. The United States were on the side of France and Belgium. There were 4,734,991 troops engaged in the war on the United States side. There were 53,402 american casualties. -
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Forbes,Allan/Dates of Service
Forbes, Allan served for 2+ years in the army. The location of his deployment was in France. His highest rank was corporal. He was originally from MA. -
Met his Brother in France
On this day her wrote a letter to his father explaining how he met in brother in France. He was also saying that in the change in war puts going home out of the question because the war had changes. And how he had visions of gong home in a month but that wasn't going to happen. -
Wear Certain Chevron
On this date many other including Forbes, Allan got told to wear a certain thing to go into the war. This was a note to authorize them to wear them it was only sent out to so many people there were many ames on the list and short amount of people were authorized to wear the pants. -
Orders for Him to Come Home
This was the day that the troops received a note saying that was time for them to come home. And for them to report back to Brest, France for their return to the United States. -
Letter from John J. Pershing
This was a letter from John Pershing congratulating him about the war and the good out come. And complementing him on how he a patriotic young man and brave for doing these things. And wrote it personaly to him.
