Highest one-day casualty record (58,000 troops)
Battle of Somme
Assassinated June 28th, 1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
A long narrow ditch
Trench
Ended WW1
Treaty of Versailles
Length of WWI
5 Years
Longest Battle of WWI
Battle of Verdun
United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, United States
Allied Powers
WWI Technology
Tanks, Machine guns, chlorine gas
May 7, 1915
Sinking of the Lusitania
Suffered the most total casualties of WWI
Russian/Ottoman Empire
First battle between Russia and Germany
Battle of Tannenburg
War/Battle on two fronts
Schlieffen Plan
Germany and Austro-Hungary (I got your back)
Triple Alliance
From Mexico to Germany
Zimmerman Telegram
Countries involved in WWI
French and British troops push back and save Paris
Battle of the Marne
Assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Gavel Princip
France, Britain, and Russia
Triple Entente
August 14th, 1914
Germany invades Belgium
Founded April 1918
RAF (Royal Air Force)
M.A.I.N
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Ottoman Empire
Central Powers
December 25, 1914
Christmas Truce
Russia leaves war (Peace with Germany)
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Biggest loser of WWI
Germany