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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo (the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia-Herzegovina) on 28 June 1914 eventually led to the outbreak of the First World War.

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On July 28, 1914, one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War.]]> 2023-03-02 18:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/smithj94641/w4yjt4yi2kwvhnmo/wish/2501532994 smithj94641 https://padlet.com/smithj94641/w4yjt4yi2kwvhnmo/wish/2501543067 1915-
Feb. 18, 1915: Germany begins a naval blockade of Great Britain. Utilizing its naval resources, Germany tried to enforce its own blockade in the North Sea]]> 2023-03-02 18:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/smithj94641/w4yjt4yi2kwvhnmo/wish/2501543067 smithj94641 https://padlet.com/smithj94641/w4yjt4yi2kwvhnmo/wish/2501547830 1915-
At dawn on 25 April 1915, Allied troops landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in Ottoman Turkey. The Gallipoli campaign was the land-based element of a strategy intended to allow Allied ships to pass through the Dardanelles, capture Constantinople (now Istanbul), and ultimately knock Ottoman Turkey out of the war.]]> 2023-03-02 18:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/smithj94641/w4yjt4yi2kwvhnmo/wish/2501547830 smithj94641 https://padlet.com/smithj94641/w4yjt4yi2kwvhnmo/wish/2501550978 1916-The Battle of Verdun began on 21 February 1916 at 7.15 am when the German army began pounding the forts and trenches with artillery fire. 1,200 guns smashed the French positions.

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Once the war was declared, the army attempted to mobilize the troops very quickly. The fatigued British and French troops, who had been fighting since August 1914

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On March 21, 1918, near the Somme River in France, the German army launches its first major offensive on the Western Front in two years. At the beginning ]]> 2023-03-02 18:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/smithj94641/w4yjt4yi2kwvhnmo/wish/2501557834 smithj94641 https://padlet.com/smithj94641/w4yjt4yi2kwvhnmo/wish/2501561213 1918-In the spring of 1945, British and American forces fought their way into the heart of western Germany. Although the first German city to fall to American forces, Aachen had been captured in October 1944, the invasion of the Third Reich began in earnest in March 1945 when the western Allies crossed the Rhine River.]]> 2023-03-02 18:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/smithj94641/w4yjt4yi2kwvhnmo/wish/2501561213 smithj94641 https://padlet.com/smithj94641/w4yjt4yi2kwvhnmo/wish/2501566854 1919-The Senate has, at times, rejected treaties when its members felt their concerns were not adequately addressed. In 1919 the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration.

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On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, France. The treaty was one of several that officially ended five years of conflict known as the Great War—World War I]]> 2023-03-02 18:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/smithj94641/w4yjt4yi2kwvhnmo/wish/2501569388