Key People Of WW1 by Julia Pfaffenbach

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was heir to the Austro Hungarian throne, and was assassinated in 1914, by a Serbian man by the name of Gavrilo Princip. Later, officials in Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on July 28 of 1914.

Gavrilo Princip

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Gavrilo Princip was the assassin who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife in 1914. This caused a war that involved the Austro Hungarians and the Serbians that started the same year that Ferdinand the heir to the Austro Hungarian throne in 1914.

Vladimir Lenin

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Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the Soviet Union. He believed in communism. The Soviet Union was a big part in World War 1 and was said by many people that the Soviet Union was the cause for World War 1 that started in 1914.

Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Kaiser Wilhelm II was King of Prussia. When the war started in 1914, because leaders in Britain, France, and Russia blamed the kaiser and German imperial expansionism for the war. Kaiser Wilhelm went into exile in the Netherlands on November 10th then abdicated the throne on November 28. With the Dutch government unwilling to extradite him as demanded by the Treaty of Versailles, Wilhelm spent the rest of his life in the Netherlands.

Tsar Nicholas II

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Tsar Nicholas II made the disastrous decision to take direct command of the Russian armies in 1915. Nicholas was blamed for the defeats that Russia has had in World War 1.

Georges Clemenceau

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Georges Clemenceau was twice the premier of France, in 1906-1909, and in 1917-1919. He led France through the critical days of World War 1 and headed the French delegation to the Paris Peace Conference.

King George V

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King George V was king of Great Britain during World War 1. During the war King George V met allied heads of state, inspecting troops and visiting the wounded.

Winston Churchill

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Woodrow Wilson

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John Joseph Pershing

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Ferdinand Foch

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Douglas Haig

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