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The spark that lighted the fire up
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated by a Bosnian Serb nationalist in Sarajevo. -
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First world war
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ultimatum
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia that didn't respond to their ultimatum -
Serbian plan
Meanwhile Serbia forms an alliance with Russia, that after having threatened german borders ,entered war against Germany -
trench warfare
Germany wanted Belgium to be neutral so in order to make them do it,invades France.Moreover,to face the war,germany creates trenches. -
Italy joins the war
Italy enters war alongside the "agreement".Through the "London pact" foreign ministers Salandra and Sonnino agree Italy's entrance in order to get back the unredeemed lands. -
World war
the conflit spreaded in the southern area and in the suez channel. Military communism is used to face the war. The State intervened in the economy of war industry causing public debt. -
The turning point
The United States took action in favour of the "understanding" because they didn't want to block the traffic with England. Moreover in Russia took place the "russian revolution" that forced this country to retreat -
Peace of Brest Litovsk
Russia lost to Germany large parts of its western territory in the Baltic states, Finland and Poland, and more than 30 per cent of its population. -
truces
the political balance changed, new national states originated and the russian empire collapsed together with the austrian,german and ottoman one. -
Peace of Paris
The conference where the victorious Allies after the end of World War I set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.
President Woodrow Wilson presents to Congress his outline of Fourteen Points required for peace. -
Treaty of Versailles
Germany is umiliated , forced to repay war damage and to cede Alsace and Lorraine to France -
Treaty of Saint Germain
This treaty established peace between the Allies and defeated Austria, and consecrated the dismantlement of the Austro-Hungarian empire into several smaller states, a source of many future tensions. -
Treaty of Neuilly
It saw Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, lose land to the newly formed Yugoslavia, to Romania and to Greece, leaving Bulgaria without direct access to the Aegean Sea. -
Treaty of Trianon
The Treaty of Trianon was concluded at Versailles between the Allies and Hungary, which lost two-thirds of the land it controlled as part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
