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Allies
The allies of world war 1 were established which contained France,Russia,And Great Britain. -
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
On June 14, 1914, the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian Throne was assassinated by a member of the black hand member named Gavrilo Princip because of how Austria took over the Balkans. There were 2 assassination attempts, The first one failed because it was a grenade that exploded his car luckily the archduke was left uninjured. The second attempt was when Gavrilo saw the archduke in his car in which the member was eating lunch. Then Gavrilo took his chance and shoot the archduke. -
Start of World war 1
In June,28th 1914 World war 1 officially starts. In this war, there were 8 million deaths with Russia having the most casualties with 1.7 million soldiers with 22,000,000 wounded. The war also changed Europe in a geographic way. -
Propaganda
In September 2nd,1914 Propaganda started being used in World war 1.Propaganda was something that encourage people to join the military. -
The Lusitania
The Lusitania was a British liner that had 1,200 people who perished due to a German submarine that torpedoed the liner. Which result in American President Wilson still wanting out of the war. -
Battle of Verdun Begins
The Battle of Verdun starts and Germany goes into total war in order to destroy the french's morality.The Germans wanted to damage the french allies and not win by their resources.But both the Germans and the french refused to give up -
The Battle of Somme begins
The battle of the Somme starts on July 1st, 1916. The British launched an attack on the Somme river so that they can pull the German troops off from Verdun. -
The Battle of Somme ends
The Battle of Somme ends with the British suffering nearly 19,000 casualties on their first day of fighting. There were a million people who died which was the lasting impact of the battle. -
The Battle of Verdun ends
The Battle of Verdun had been won by neither Germany nor France when it came to their soldiers. The French suffered 400,000 casualties which was almost close to the number of casualties that Germany had. -
America being in the war
America starts to be involved in the war due to the events of The Lusitania and The Zinner Telegram. -
Russian Revolution
The Russian revolution of 1917 forced Russia to leave the war. They overthrow the Czar which is Russia's leader. Then Russia signed a treaty of Brest-Litovsk which brought peace between Russia and the central powers which had Germany and Austria-Hungary. -
The Zimmermen Telegram
After the Lusitania the Americans discovered something know as The Zimmerman Telegram which was a coded message from a German foreign secretary who's name was Arthur Zimmerman in order to recruit Mexico into the war.Germany wanted to recruit Mexico because if the Americans join the war then Germany could be allied to Mexico so that they would have the advantage against America.The Germans would also give Mexico money and also help them take back Arizona. -
Rationing
Rationing was made to prevent people and soldiers that were in the war from starving. -
Russia's attack on the western front
Russia launches a new offensive on the western front and loses 800,000 troops. But they at least got 40 miles of Paris. There was also no more eastern front. -
The treaty of Versailles
November 11th,1919 was the end of the first world war. The war had 9 million deaths and also had millions of refugees. And 9 new nations of Europe of made because of nationalism. which includes Finland, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Latvia, and Lithuania. Also, Germany accepted full responsibility for starting the war in the first place.