# data[].attributes.body
Kaiser Wilhelm became the ruler of Germany in 1888. Wilhelm started a shipbuilding program during the 1890's in an attempt to grow the German navy as large as Britain's. In response, Great Britain began to further enlarge its navy and even form an alliance with France.

# data[].attributes.body
The Schlieffen Plan was first proposed in 1905 and was named after its designer, General Alfred Graf von Schlieffen. The plan was to send a large part of the German army to the west (through Belgium) to defeat France and then return to the east to fight Russia. When Belgium (a neutral country) refused to let Germany pass through, Germany invaded Belgium. The invasion of Belgium brought Great Britain into the conflict, as Britain had close ties with Belgium.

# data[].attributes.body
The First Battle of the Marne is regarded by some as the single most important event of WWI. Along with the defeat of the Germans and the failure of the Schlieffen Plan, Russia had already began invading Germany. Germany would now have to fight a long war in both the east and the west.

# data[].attributes.body
In August of 1914, Germany finally counterattacked Russian forces near Tannenberg. The Battle of Tannenberg only lasted four days, during which Germany drove the invading Russian army into retreat. In the end, the Germans regained East Prussia.

# data[].attributes.body
With the aid of new tools of war, the Battle of the Somme ended with a large number of deaths. On just the first day of the battle, over 20,000 British soldiers were killed. By the end of the battle in November 1916, each side had suffered more than 500,000 deaths. The Battle of the Somme resulted in the Germans advancing about four miles near Verdun and the British advancing about five miles in the Somme valley.

# data[].attributes.body
The Gallipoli Campaign was an attempt to take the Dardanelles strait in the Ottoman Empire. Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and France all made repeated attacks on the western side of the Dardanelles strait while Turkish troops defended it. In December of 1915, the Allies gave up the campaign after suffering around 250,000 casualties.

# data[].attributes.body
The Zimmermann Note was a telegram sent from Germany's foreign secretary to the German ambassador in Mexico. The telegram stated that Germany would agree to help Mexico get back the land it lost to the US if Mexico agreed to ally with Germany. However, the British intercepted this telegram and gave it to the U.S. government, causing Americans to call for war against Germany.

# data[].attributes.body
After the deaths of millions of Russian soldiers, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (who seized power in 1917) demanded an end to Russia's involvement in the war. Lenin offered Germany a truce, and in March of 1918 both Germany and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. This treaty ended the war between Russia and Germany. However, the treaty was especially difficult for Russia and resulted in the Russian government surrendering multiple lands to Germany.

# data[].attributes.body
The Second Battle of the Marne was a war between the Allies and the Germans. With the help of two million American troops, the Allies were steadily advancing towards Germany. This caused the Central Powers to begin to fall apart. On November 9, 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II stepped down and Germany declared itself a republic.

# data[].attributes.body
A peace armistice is an agreement to stop fighting. On November 11, 1918, a representative of the new German government and Marshal Foch (a military commander of the Allies) met in a railway car in a forest in France and signed a peace armistice. Finally, WWI came to an end.