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Background of World War 1

The World War 1 was started because of the assassination of


Fred Ferdinand. You might be thinking why was Fred was so
special that his death made cause of World War 1 and who is
Fred Ferdinand?
The fact was the Ferdinand was not popular he was hated in
Austria and Siberia during to his visit in town hall visiting his
one assassinator was very clever his name was Gavrilo Princip
that killed Ferdinand and her wife when they on board.
Indeed, Wilhelm II in Germany who was friend of Ferdinand
acted because they were thinking that Ferdinand was the
king, and the killing of king was biggest crime and Austria was
friend of Germany indeed Germany send the troops to Austria
for their support. Vienna did comforted berlin before issuing
the ultimatum, but Siberia rejected that caused the war to
start. There were some countries ambassadors that tried to
stop the war but the gray conference made Russia to agree
the peace Germany captured capture that led to war this was
only beginning of the war

Main events
 Battle of Marne (6-12 August 1914): this was first war
against Germany armies indeed Germany got defeated
and British-France won the war This war located on east
Paris in somewhere of Paris there was much big loss to
German their 67 000 soldiers were killed and British saw 1
700 deaths and 13 000 casualties
 US joins the war: Germany was sensitive that without
planned they some ships and merchant in 1917 and the
decision of Wilson attacked lead to the US to join WW1
 First Battle of Ypres (1914-1918): fought between British
and German. German wanted to take over Ypres in
Belgium in this war Germany luckily won the war injuring
50 000 Britishers
nd
 2 battle of Ypres: (22 April – 22 November 1915) Indeed

Germans lost the war against Canadian troops that made


Ypres safe (not too safe) Canada, France and Britishers
collab and attacked Germans only 121 were injured
 Battle of Verdun (February 21st to December 18th, 1916)
took place in north-eastern France. It was fought between
The German Empire and France. It was longest bloodiest
war in World War 1 and French hard working country won
and German empire lost this war that led to extinction and
corruption. French injured amounted to about 400,000,
German ones to about 350,000 and Some 300,000 were
killed.

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