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The triple Alliance is formed between Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary which is a military alliance. Each member promised mutual support if an attack by any other greater power.
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France, Britain and Russia became allies. The German military began to fear the possibility of a combined attack from France, Britain and Russia, so Alfred von Schlieffen made a strategic plan. The plan was if war broke out France had to be defeated speedily which then Britain and Russia would be unwilling to carry on fighting.
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The triple Entente is formed between Britain, France and Russia which was an alliance which they all signed on the 31st August 1907.
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In May 1911 The Black Hand was formed by ten Serbians. The Black Hand main objective was the creation, by means of violence. It's first aim was "to realise the national ideal, the unification of all Serbians. This organisation prefers terrorist action to cultural activities; it will therefore remain secret."
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Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assinated in Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip from the Black Hand
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Austria-Hungary asks Germany ofr support for war against Serbia in case of Russian militrarism. Germany says yes.
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On the 23rd of July, Austria-Hungary sent Serbia am ultimatum. Their response to it is seen as unsatisfactory.
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On the 24th July Serbia asked for help from Russia if it is attacked by Austria-Hungary. Their response was yes.
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Serbia failed to please Austria-Hungary by not doing all the requirements on the ultimatum. In result Austria-Hungary declare war on Serbia.
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In result of Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia, Russia (as one of the alliances with Serbia) starts mobilizing to support them.
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On the 31st of July Germany warns Russia to stop mobilizing. Russia responds with: to mobilization is against Austria-Hungary only.
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Russia failed to stop mobilizing as Germany said to. So the result was to declare war on them.
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The Schlieffen plan was a plan made incase if war broke out and France, Britain and Russia were still alliances. (4th August 1914)
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Great Britain declares war on Germany, because of the Triple Entente alliance Great Britain supported Russia
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On August 4th 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany. Britain had given Germany an ultimatum to get out of Belgium by midnight of August 3rd.
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On the morning of 23rd August, General Alexander von Kluck and his 150,000 soldiers attacked the British positions.
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On the 29th August, Samsanov's Second Army was surrounded. They attempted to escape but most of them were slaughtered or captured. suicide. The Germans, who lost 20,000 men in the battle, were able to take over 92,000 Russian prisoners. In Britain, all news of the Russian defeat at Tannenberg was kept from the public.
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The First Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, after the British planned to attack German patrols off the northwest German coast.
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The Battle of the Marne was a First World War battle fought from 5–12 September 1914. It resulted in an allied victory against the German Army
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The trenches soon began to turn into just a never-ending series of attacks and counter-attacks. These small attacks made minimum difference, as well as losing hundreds of thousands of lives. There were many attempts to break the series of near pointless and overly bloody attacks, mainly planned by the Generals of each division.
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The Battle of Albert began on the 25th September 1914 as part of the Race to the Sea during World War I.
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In October, 1914, the French Tenth army attempted to outflank German forces on the Western Front by advancing along a line between Arras and Lens.
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At the start of the war Turkey enters the war on the side of Germany.
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The landing at Anzac Cove, also known as the landing at Gaba Tepe, and to the Turks as the Arıburnu Battle, was part of an invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula by the forces of the British Empire
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They had come up with a brilliant idea with the British troops landing on the foot of Gallipoli Peninsula at Cape Helles while the Anzacs would land further north at a beach near Gaba Tepe. The plan seemed like a great ides, although in reality it went horribly wrong.
On the 25th of April 1915, the landing took place, but not according to plan. No one really knows what went wrong but they ended up 1.6 kilometres to the north and were forced to go to a small cove, now named Anzac Cove.
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The Anzacs withdraw from Gallipoli
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a final attempt be Germany to break through the Allied line and win the war
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Bretonneux in France – costing the lives of around 1200 Australian troops
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The armistice was signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918
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he Paris Peace Conference is held to decide the fate of Germany; the Treaty of Versailles is drawn up.
