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Franz Ferdinand
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Austrian archduke who was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, which sparked World War I
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Battle of the Marne
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Turning point in the early war, as Germany had to dig in and fight instead of overrunning France
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Battle of the Somme
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A small victory for the Allies as they advanced six miles at the cost of 150,000 casualties
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Battle of Verdun
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The longest and one of the deadliest battles of the war, it ended without a clear victor, despite the deaths of more than 650,000 soldiers from Germany and France
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Schlieffen Plan
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German military plan in which they would overrun France and then turn on Russia with more leisure
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Triple Alliance
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Alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy; Italy later joined the Allies.
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Triple Entente
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A vague and non-binding commitment from Britain to help France and Russia in any war
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Zimmermann Telegram/ Sinking of the Lusitania
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Two events, a sinking of an American ships and a telegram that offered Mexico territory if they would help Germany, that brought the US into the war.
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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the high point of the war for the Germans that closed the eastern frontier against Russia and let them launch an all-out offensive against France
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Treaty of Versailles
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treaty that put enormous war reparations on the Germans and forced them to accept responsibility for the war; it was too lenient to destroy and too harsh to go back on, and it led to the rise of German extremists like Hitler
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