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World War I begins
Before World War I actually started, tensions had been building throughout Europe for years, particularly in the unstable Balkan region of southeast Europe.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire's heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, Sophie, were shot dead on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. This event served as the impetus for the outbreak of World War I. In order to free Bosnia and Herzegovina from
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Balkan Wars
The chaos in Macedonia caused unrest that spread to Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia, which led to the outbreak of the Balkan Wars. A ministry committed to reform but adamant on the idea of centralized control came to power in Constantinople (now Istanbul) as a result of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908. Consequently, no allowances were made to the Christian ethnic groups residing in Macedonia, which included the Macedonians as well as Serbs, Bulgarians(The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2023) -
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
The Great war also known as World War 1 started in 1914 and ended 1918. It all started when a serbian teenage revolutionary shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand . In 1900 Ferdinand chose to marry Sophie Chotek despite the denial of his uncle who was the emperor Franz Josef. He refused to attend their wedding. Sophie's children were not able to go to the throne because she came from Czech nobles and she didnt come from high royal status families. -
Zimmermann Note
The American people were informed on March 1, 1917, of a German offer to form an alliance with Mexico in exchange for American entry into the war. A covert communication from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the Mexican government was intercepted by British intelligence several months prior. In it, Zimmermann invited Japan to form an alliance with Mexico to reclaim the southwestern states .(National WWI Museum and Memorial, 2023) -
Lusitania sinks
The Library of Congress states that on May 7, 1915, a German U-boat sank the British-owned luxury steamer Lusitania, killing 1,195 passengers, including 128 Americans. A series of events that ultimately resulted in the United States entering World War I were sparked by the catastrophe, which also instantly strained ties between Germany and the neutral United States and inflamed anti-German sentiment.(McDermott, 2022) -
Battle of Verdun
In the Battle of Verdun, fought from February 21 to December 18, 1916, the French successfully repelled a significant German attack during World War I. It was one of the war's longest, bloodiest, and most brutal engagements; roughly 400,000 French and 350,000 Germans died in it. About 300,000 people perished. Leaders of the Allied forces had believed that the German defenses would be sufficiently damaged by the bombardment (Bidou, 2023) -
Battle of Gallipoli, Somme
Along the Western Front of World War I, close to the Somme River in France, the Battle of the Somme began as an Allied offensive against German forces. It lasted from July to November of 1916. In the first day of the battle alone, British forces lost over 57,000 soldiers, including over 19,000 killed, making the conflict one of the bloodiest, deadliest, and most expensive in human history. (Imperial War Museums, 2023) -
Russia withdraws from war
A number of reasons, including domestic political unrest, military setbacks, and economic difficulties, contributed to Russia's exit from World War 1. The Tsarist administration was overthrown in 1917's February Revolution, and a provisional government was installed in its place, but it was unable to deal with the issues facing the nation.The Russian army was also beset by low morale and defection, and it suffered heavy losses on the Eastern Front. (History for Kids, 2023) -
Russian Revolution
Empires fell apart during World War I, and Czar Nicholas II's Russian empire was one of them. Nicholas was the sovereign monarch of a territory inhabited by nearly 150 million people, spanning from Central Europe to the Pacific and the edge of Afghanistan to the Arctic, when he declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary in July 1914.(Kiger, 2021) -
U.S. enters war
What made America join the First World War? Many Americans supported President Woodrow Wilson's policy of strict and impartial neutrality when World War I broke out in Europe in 1914 and wanted the United States to remain out of the fight. "During these days that are to try men's souls, the United States must be neutral in name as well as in fact. National WWI Museum and Memorial, 2023) -
Battle of Chateau-Thierry
New York's Saratoga Springs When the United States entered the conflict in 1918, General John Pershing's American Expeditionary Force of World War I sought to end the four-year trench warfare impasse.
In late July 1918, the newly formed and combat-trained 42nd Division of the National Guard launched its first significant offensive in the vicinity of Chateau-Thierry.
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Battle of Argonne
Gen. Ferdinand Foch and the Allied high command planned a series of convergent and nearly simultaneous offensives against the trembling German armies after the German retreat from the Marne River in July. One involved a cooperative effort in the Meuse valley aimed at the rail centers of Mézière and Sedan. The French moved west of the Argonne Forest, while the Americans moved west of the Meuse River. (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2023) -
Armistice of WWI
On November 11 The Armstice was the ceasefire that ended the hostilities between the Germans and the Allies. They did not end the first war themselves. It was a agreement which stoped the fighting on the western Front. The war was formally ended be the Treaty of Versailles. It ended for more then half a year (Sawer, n.d.) . -
The Treaty of Versailles signed
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, at the Palace of Versailles, which is located outside of Paris, France. The treaty was one of several that put an official end to the Great War, or World War I, which lasted for five years. The victorious Allies, led by the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, and Germany agreed to terms of peace in the Treaty of Versailles. Different treaties were signed by other Central Powers, most notably Austria-Hungary -
First meeting of the League of Nations
The league of nations started on january 10 1920. 41 states gather in Geneva in 1920 for the opening of the first session of the Assembly.A large portion of existing states and corresponded to more than 70% of the world population. The organization was open to any dominion or colony.The League never succeeded to become a universal organization.(United Nations, n.d.)