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Russo-Japanese war
This war fought between Russian Empire and the Japan Empire over rival imperial ambitons in Manchuria and Korea. -
Bloody Sunday
Well on its way to losing a war against Japan in the Far East, czarist Russia is wracked with internal discontent that finally explodes into Violence st. Petersburg in what will become known as the Bloody sunday Macsacre. -
Schlieffen Plan put into action
The Shlieffen Plan was the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilise forces near the German border. The execution of the Schliffen Plan led to Britain declaring war on Germany. -
Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia
Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary announces its annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, dual provinces in the Balkan regiun of Europe formerly under the control of the Ottoman Empire. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This event sparked the outbreak of World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Serbian nationalist Nedjelko Cabrinovic assassinated Fedinand and his wife. This event set off a rapid chain of events. -
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
When Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife was assassinated insarajevo. Archduke was the heir to the throne to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. -
Germany invades Belgium
The Belgina government had announced that if wat came it would uphold its historic neutrality. Belgian govenment mobilized its armed forces on July 31 and a state of heighted alert was proclaimed in Germany. On August 2 the German government sent an ultimatum to Beligum, demading passage through the country and German forces invaded luxembourg. -
Start of the Battle of Marne
Was a first World battle, that resulted in an Allied victory aginst the German Army -
Sinking of the Lusitania
When Germany torpedues a British passenger ship believed to be smuggling arms, ager s at the resulting American deaths increases pressure on President Wilson to enter World War I. -
Start of the Battle of Verdun
Was one of the largest battles of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies. -
Start of the Battle of the somme
Fought near the Somme River in France, it was onr of the bloodiest military battles in history. The somme campaign in 1914 was the first offensive of World War I for the British, and it produced a more critical British attitude toward the war. -
Zimmerman Telegram found
Was an internal siplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign office, that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. -
Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicates
During the February Revolution, Czar Nucholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to adbicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place. -
U.S. Enters World War I
The U.S. was neurtal to the war but there eas pressure on them, because their allies were at war and Germany turpedoes the lusitania. With all that going on it pushed the U.S. to enter the war. -
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1017, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. -
October Revolution
Was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. Resulted in Creation of soviet Russia. End of Russian Provisional Government, Russian Republic and dual power.Started the Russian Civil War. -
Fourteen Points proposed
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for World peace that was to be used for peace negotiations to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
Russia signs Treaty of Brest-litovsk
Was a peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of soviet Russia and the Central Power, that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
France loses Alsace and Loraine to Germany
France had lost Alsace and Loraine only 43 years ago in the Franco-Prussian war where the soon to be German State had given the French a lot of reason to want revenge. -
Armistice signed
Was an armistice during the first world war between the Allies and German. After the location in which it was signed and the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western front. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates
With Germany actively seeking an armistice and revolution threating, calls for Kaiser Wilhelm II to abdicate grew in intensity. Wilhelm was himself deeply relucate to make such a sacrifice, instead expressing a preference to lead his armies back into Germany from the Western front. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Negotiated among the Allied powers with littlw participation by Germant, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. -
Stalin takes over Russia
Was the dictator of the union of soviet socialist Republics. Under stalin, the soviet union was trans formed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. -
Russia mobilizes army
The Russian Stavka's war planning assumed that war against either Austria-Hungary, in either case ubits would be mobilized on the frontiers of both powers.
