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Franco-Russian Alliance
It led to a common foreign policy, mutual strategic military and economical interests between France and Russia. -
Entente Cordiale
This alliance marks the end of secular conflicts between France and Great Britain and represents an important step to the formation of the Triple Entente, which included Russia. -
Triple Entente
The Triple Entente is important because it was formed in reaction to the formation of the Triple Alliance, it was formed between Russia, France and Britain. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is Assassinated
A Serbian nationalist, called Gavrilo Princip, shot and killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife as they traveled through Sarajevo. Enraged, Austria-Hungary gained German support and declared war on Serbia. -
FIRST WORLD WAR
After the assassination of the heir of the Austro-Hungarian throne begins the WWI. -
The sinking of Lusitania
The Lusitania was a passenger cruise ship secretly carrying weapons, which sinks after the torpedoing by the German submarine U-20 -
Italy joins the war
Italy initially declared itself neutral, but, although part of the Triple Alliance, entered the war on the side of France and England, against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
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THE 17th as a turning point
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Russian Revolution
Russian tzar Nicholas II was arrested and forced to abdicate after a violent insurrection which led to the formation af an interim governament led by Karensky, a menshevik. The Mensheviks wanted to continue the war and they launched an offensive in Galicia, but the army was in disarray and Germany was able to penetrate into Russia. This situation breaks into a second revolution (The October Revolution), and the conflict between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks led to the taking power of Lenin. -
US Declares War on Germany
This was a major turning point in the war because up until then the United States had remained neutral in war. But after the sinking of the Lusitania, they joined which gave the Allied Powers an advantage. -
Italian defeat at Caporetto
Italian army was defeated at Caporetto by the Austro-Hungarian army. After the retreat of Russia from the conflict, Germany and Austria could focus on the Western Front. Italy that was not ready to face a consistent attack, was overwhelmed in this battle. -
Fourteen Points were proposed
The Fourteen Points were a statement of principles that would be used for peace negotiations. They were created by President Woodrow Wilson and were later presented to the United States Congress -
The Brest-Litovsk Peace
The Bolshevik Lenin signed the peace with Germany, in this agreement Russia had to cede Poland and Baltic states and it was forced to declare Ukraine as Indipendent. hese actions were meant as a "buffer" for a hypothetical expansion of communism into capitalism occident. -
War is over!
Germany, the last state of the Central Powers that still had not given up, signed the armistice, was officially decreed the end of World War I who had bloodied Europe. -
Treaty of Versailles
this treaty obliges Germany to cede territories of Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland. The unredeemed lands of Alsace and Lorraine came back to France, the Rhineland (area full of minerals) had to be demilitarized and the German army had to be reduced to 100,000 units; but above all Germany would have to pay 132 billion marks as war indemnity. -
Peace of Saint-Germain
This peace was signed between Austria and the allies and crated the republic of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. Furthermore Austria was forced to cede the unredeemd lands of South Tyrol, Trieste, Trentino and Istria to Italy.
