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USA ENTRY
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Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife
The arch duke was killed on this day because a group didnt want to be controled by him so they killed him -
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WW1
The begging to end of ww1 -
Shlieffen Plan
The Schlieffen Plan was created by General Count Alfred von Schlieffen . The Schlieffen Plan was the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilise her forces near the German border. The execution of the Schlieffen Plan led to Britain declaring war on Germany on August 4th, 1914. -
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Battle of Tannensberg
On August 26, 1914, the German 8th Army, under the leadership of Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, strikes with lethal force against the advancing Russian Army, led by General Aleksandr Samsonov, in East Prussia during the opening weeks of the First World War. -
First Battle of Marne
The World War I First Battle of the Marne featured the first use of radio intercepts and automotive transport of troops in wartime. After French commander in chief Joseph Joffre ordered an offensive in September 1914, General Michel-Joseph Maunoury’s French Sixth Army opened a gap between Germany’s First and Second Armies. Maunoury exploited the gap with help from the French Fifth Army and British Expeditionary Force, while Ferdinand Foch’s Ninth Army thwarted the advances of the German Second a -
Gallipoli Campaign
Long called the “sick man of Europe,” the Ottoman Empire had suffered one military defeat after another in the lead-up to World War I. Its reputation was so bad, in fact, that the British and their main allies, the French, half-thought they would cause the government to collapse simply by showing up. With their modern battleships busy fighting Germany, they almost exclusively employed outdated models during the Gallipoli campaign. They also made little effort to gather intelligence on the opposi -
Armeain Deportation
On this day in 1915, in the latest of a disturbing series of Turkish aggressions against Armenians during World War I, Mehmed Talat, the Ottoman minister of the interior, announces that all Armenians living near the battlefield zones in eastern Anatolia (under Ottoman rule) will be deported to Syria and Mosul. Large-scale deportations began five days later, after the decision was sanctioned by the Ottoman council of ministers. -
The start of the battle of verdun
The german forces claimed two forts after completting a whole bunch of bloodshed -
Implementation of Submarine Warfare
In Febuary 1917, the Germans announced thet their submarines would sink without warning any ship around the waters of Britain. -
The Zimmerman Note
This is a cause of the united states entering the war -
Treaty Of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers -
Second Battle Of Marne
Allies defeat Germany -
Armistice
a representitive of the new German government met with Marshal Foch.In a railway car in a forest near Paris,the two signed an armistice, or an agreement to stop fighting.
