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What started it
Franz Ferdinand is assassinated which is a key event that started the War -
Beginning
WWI begins -
Battle of Tannenberg
General Aleksandr Samsonov leads in East Prussia during the start of the war -
Lusitania
More than 1,900 people aboard and more than 1,100 died -
Germany
Germany were the first to use large amounts of gas in the war. ¨ The Air Threatens The Home¨ -
Joining
Arthur James Thomas joins the Navy in 1917. There was no exact date but the year is certain -
Bantry Bay
Arthur and a few more Navy men head out in Ireland -
Dear Viola
Thomas writes to Viola -
Cantigny
The first major American offensive which leads to larger attacks on Germany -
Belleau Wood
US Marines attack Germany in a field -
General Pershing
300,000 Americans fall into line with German troops under Pershings instructions -
Train
Arthur Thomas sees train with other soldiers aboard -
Armistice
Signed to end fighting in the West -
End of Service
Arthur Thomas James ends being in the Navy
