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Causes: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Russia, being Serbia's alliance stepped in to help defend Serbia. Germany declared war on Russia because they are alliances with Austria-Hungary. France was then drawn in against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Germany attacked France through Belgium pulling Britain into war, making Japan enter the war. Later, Italy and the United States would enter on the side of the allies and help defend the Allies from the German campaign.

Major Players: Russia, Serbia, France, Britain, Germany, and Austria-Hungary

Allies: Austria-Hungry ---> Germany Serbia--->Russia-->France--->Britain-->

Major Events:

June 28,1914---Austria-Hungry archduke, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by the Black Hand, which are a Serbian nationalist secret society.

Austria-Hungary blamed the Serbian government; they took the opportunity to give the Serbians an ultimatum, which was basically going to give Austria-Hungry control of Serbia.

July 28, 1914---Serbia didn’t take this ultimatum and Austria-Hungry declared war on Serbia The issue though was that Serbia and Russia were bound by treaty to be allies, which meant that when Austria-Hungry declared war on Serbia, Russia was in the defense of Serbia.Germany was allies with Austria-Hungry

August of 1914--The First recorded use of tear gas was used by the French. The french used this gas on the Germans.

August of 1914--machine guns were first introduced, these machine guns were a major factor of the war on the battlefield.

In February 1915, Germany announced that they are starting an unrestricted submarine warfare plan. The plan said that they would sink any ship that came close to Britain.

The Second Battle of Ypres, 1915- only major attack launched by the German forces on the Western Front in 1915,begun in April of 1915 and the use of this war was primarily used to divert the allied attention from the eastern front, also was a mean to test the use of chlorine gas. This war then concluded in May.

May 2, 1915-- British passenger ship Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat. 1195 passengers were killed which included 128 Americans. This put pressure on the U.S. to enter the war.

1916 and 1917, was dominated by continued trench warfare in both the east and the west. Soldiers fought from dug-in positions, striking at each other with machine guns, heavy artillery, and chemical weapons. Though soldiers died by the millions in brutal conditions, neither side had any substantive success or gained any advantage. Influenza took heavy tolls on soldiers of both sides. The government of both Germany and Austria-Hungry began to lose control, within there military.

January 19,1917---German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann cabled Henrich von Eckhark who was the minister in Mexico. The telegram that was sent was trying to form a German-Mexican alliance. Germany would financially assist Mexico recover Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. German felt by doing this it would keep the United States out of the war.

February 25, 1917 President Woodrow Wilson learned about the Zimmermann telegram from the help of the British.

April 2, 1917- President Woodrow Wilson sends his message to war, then on April 4 the Senate took a vote in favor of the war and then on April 6 the House also voted in favor of the war. The United States would go to war against Germany, which meant that the United States would help the British and the allies of Britain.

November 11,1918 an armistice was signed saying that the fighting was coming to an end. Germany was forced to sign the armistice because they began to crumble.

End of War:
 * In 1918 civilians began to protest the war in Berlin because the British Navy began to blockade their ports, which left thousands starving.
 * On November 11th 1918, a meeting was held in Compiegne with the leaders of both sides of the war. An armistice was signed and put into affect that day.

Effects:


 * Government change had drasticly changed. After the war Europe contained 13 monarchies, 14 republics and 2 regencies.
 * Germany was held responsible for the war resulting in them having to pay large amounts of money to pay for war costs.
 * Advances in technology like the manufacturing of cars, chemicals, radios, airplanes, and machines used in manufacturing were produced.
 * Psychological effects on people world-wide because of the severe loss of life. 10 to 13 million people died in the war.

Timelines: Andrew- http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/World-War-I-aguinan Maura-http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/World-War-I-mwilkerson Megan-http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/Assassination-of-Franz-Ferdinand-

Works Cited http://www.firstworldwar.com/origins/causes.htm http://americanhistory.about.com/od/worldwari/tp/causes-of-world-war-1.htm http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/armistice.htm http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/ww1/summary.html http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/poison_gas_and_world_war_one.htm http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/end_of_war.htm http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/machineguns.htm http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/ypres2.htm http://members.fortunecity.com/mikaelxii/effects.html Milestone Documents in American History Volume 3

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