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  Germany was officially unified in 1871. East and west Germany finally came back together.
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  7% of Alsace remained french and 27% of Lorraine remained french.
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  Two provinces in the Balkan region of Europe formally under the control of Ottoman Empire
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  The Bolsheviks were very important, they became the communist of the Soviet Union.
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  He was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He wa style Archduke of Austria and the Royal prince of Hungary.
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  Archduke Ferdinand and his family were killed and Austria declares war and this effectively begains WWI
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  Japan declares war demanding removal of all German ships from Japanese and Chinease waters. Germany's largest oversea Naval was in Chinease waters.
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  Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, Germany 8th Army strikes Russia's 2nd Army.
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  French 6th Army and Germany 1st army go to war and the end of the first month of WWI
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  War attempted by Allied forces to controll the sea route from Europe to Russia
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  The French retook their forts and pushed back the line
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  Battle of WWI fought by British and French Empire against the German empire.
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  A battle involving 250 ships and over 100,000 men, over Demnmark North Sea. At the end of the battle Britian kept control of the North Sea.
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  Arthur James Balfour writes a letter to Britian expressing the British support on jewish homeland in Palestine.
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  Also known as the battle of mud. Attack was made by Sir Douglas Haig and his attempt to break through Flanders.