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Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot and killed.

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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I.

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A secret alliance was signed between Germany and the Ottoman Empire.

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Great Britain declares war on Germany.

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-The Austro-Hungarian Empire declares war on Russia.

-French and British troops invade the German colony of Togo in West Africa.

- The first British troops land in France.

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Austria-Hungary pushes and invades Russia.

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The Battle of Tannenberg ended on August 30th.

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The First Battle of the Marne was a battle of the First World War fought

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First Battle of Ypres ended on the 22nd.

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the Christmas Truce of World War I came about when German soldiers in one part of the western front, weary from battle and anticipating an upcoming end to the fighting, decided that they would not raise their rifles on that Christmas Day

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the Second Battle of Ypres was fought for control of the tactically important high ground to the east and south of the Flemish town of Ypres in western Belgium.

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a date for commemorating the victims of the Ottoman Empire's near total destruction of its Armenian population.

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6,000 Australians and New Zealanders, together with British, French and Indian troops, landed on the Gallipoli peninsula

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a German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned luxury steamship Lusitania, killing 1,195 people including 128 Americans

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British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.

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Italy resigned from the Triple Alliance and later declared war against Austria-Hungary at midnight.

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Battle of Verdun, World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive.

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The Battle of the Somme was a joint operation between British and French forces intended to achieve a decisive victory over the Germans on the Western Front after 18 months of trench deadlock.

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President Woodrow Wilson defeated Charles E. Hughes in the U.S. presidential election.

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February Revolution – Tsar Nicholas abdicated his throne and his son's claims, sending in motion the end of the Russian Empire after 196 years.

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British naval intelligence intercepted and decrypted a telegram sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman to the German Ambassador in Mexico City.

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U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing a note declaring Germany's intention to restart unrestricted submarine warfare the following day.

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The United States formally declared war against Germany and entered the war.

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the German Ambassador to the United States, Count Johann von Bernstorff, presented U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing with a note declaring Germany's intention to restart unrestricted submarine warfare the following day.

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Balfour Declaration was a letter of British support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”

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The 300-year-old Romanov dynasty in Russia ends upon the abdication of Czar Nicholas II. In his place, a new democratically minded Provisional Government is established.

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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed causing Russia to withdraw from World War I.

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the United States declared war on the German Empire, joining France, Great Britain, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Italy.

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The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was fought during the First World War .

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The Balfour Declaration was a statement issued by the British Government in 1917 stating its support for establishing a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate his throne and flee Germany for Holland.

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the Germans that Kaiser Wilhelm II had abdicated and the new government instructed them to sign the armistice.

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WW1 ended at 11am on 11/11/1918.

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The Versailles Peace Treaty, signed on officially ended World War I.

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Treaty of Sèvres was a post-World War I pact between the Allied powers and representatives of Ottoman Turkey.