THE FIRST WORLD WAR

THE FIRST WORLD WAR

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April - MayPositioning for war

THE FIRST WORLD WAR

• June: The Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo.

This causes The First Wold War.

• July: The Austrian emperor declares war on Serbia.
• August: The germans invade Belguim to attack the french in the north.
• September: The first battle of Marne. The french army under general Joffre stops the german army.

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• April: The allies planned to atack Rusia from the black sea.

• May: The sinking of the English trans atlantic ship Lusiania.

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April-MayPositioning for war

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• September: The germans push back the russians and take Poland.
• October: Bulgaria sides with Germany and Austria and smashes Serbia.
• Dicember: The allias fall back in the failed Galípoli campain.

The British Empire suffers 250.000 fallen.

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• February-June: The Battle of Verdún. The germans launch an unsuccessful offensive.

General Pétain troops hold firm.

• July- November: The Battle of the Somme. The British start an offensive in the north of France. It was one of the longest and bloodiest.

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• January: Germany again starts the submarine war and sinks alliad ships and US ships in the following months.
• March: The Russian revolution begins. The Zare of Russia, Nicolás II abdicates

• On the 6th of April the president of the United States declares war on germany.

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• March: Russia withdraws from the war.
• October: The British and the Italians distroy the austrians of Vittroio Veneto.
• November: Kaiser Guillermo II abdicates in Germany.
• 11 of November: Germany signs the armistice.

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1918

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