World War One (1)

Front 1

Dual Entente btw Russia and France

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1894

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Germany millitary planners adopt Schlieffen plan

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1894

Front 3

First Morrocan crisis

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1905

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Naval race btw Britain and Germany begins

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1906

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Britain, France and Russian form the Triple Entente

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1907

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Austris annexes Bosnia-Herzeegovina

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1908

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The second Morrocan crisis

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1911

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Balkan wars

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1912-13

Front 9

Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated

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1914- June 28th

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Franz Joseph issues ultimatum to Serbia

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1914- July 23rd

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British fleet goes to sea

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1914- July 28th

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Russia mobilizes

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1914- July 30th

Front 13

Germany invades Belgium

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1914- August 3rd

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Battle of Marn in France (led to stalemate)

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1914- September 5-10th

Front 15

Battle of Ypres

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1914- November 11th

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Battles of Tannenburg and the Masurian lakes

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1914 August-September
EF
Russian forces defeated

Front 17

Tsar advised that his armies can no longer mount an offensive

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1914- December
EF

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In 1905, the western front was characterized by..

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Trench warfare

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German-Austrian armies route the Russian armies in a mid-summer offensive

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1915 - EF

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Attempts to defeat Germany at Gallipoli in 1915 (EF)

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Plan - create a third battlefront (failure)
Note: Italy enters war on the side of the Allied forces (in return for promised territorial gains after the war)
A campaign is laurnched in Middle East with the hopes of driing Germany's ally, the Ottoman Empire, out of the war.

Front 21

Battle of Verdun

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1916- February 21st

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Somme offensive

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1916- June 24th

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Jutland naval battle

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1916- May 31st

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Brusilov offensive

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1916- June 4th

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Overview of 1916

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-Power is centralized un the hands of the state ("Total war")
- Only if every element of society is directed towards was effort can victory be achieved.
- Industrial societies resupply the battlefronts on an indefinite basis.
- Women flood into the workforce

Front 26

Zimmerman telegram

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1917- January 16th

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Germany declares a war zone around Britain

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1917- February

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Nicolas II (Russian Tsar) abdicates

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1917- February

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The United States enter the war

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1917- April 6th

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Revolution in Russia

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1917- February 23rd

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Bolshevek Revolution in Russia

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1917- October 24th

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Lenin declares a Bolshevek Gov't in Russia, Russian civil war begins

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1918- January

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Wilson's 14 points are presented

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1918- January 8th

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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1918- March 3rd

Russia leaves war

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Kaiserschlacht

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1918- March 21st

German offensive on the Western front

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Chateau Thierry

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1918- June 1st

Germans come up against the first AMerican troops

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Last 100 days

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1918- August 8th

Continuous advance of the Allied armies

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Prince Max voon Baden appointed chancellor of Germany

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1918- October 26th

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Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates

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1918- November 8th

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Provisional Gov't in Germany under Chancellor Ebert

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1918- Nover 9th

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Armistice takes effect

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1918- November 11th

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Peace negotiations begin

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1919 - January 18th

- Leads to Treaty of Versailles