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Anti-Serbian rioting breaks out in Sarajevo, June 29, 1914. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo – Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina Oskar Potiorek declared a state of siege in Sarajevo as violent pogroms were carried out against ethnic Serbians. Over 1,000 Serbian homes, businesses and churches were vandalized with little or no intervention by law ...
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2007. Butcher, Tim (2014). The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 978-0802191885. Buttar, Prit (2016). Collision of Empires. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1782006480. Clark, Christopher (2012). The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. Penguin UK.
May 16 – June 23 Eastern: Battle of Konary. May 23 Politics: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. [24] May 24–25 Western: Battle of Bellewaarde, final phase of the Second Battle of Ypres. May 31 – June 10 African, Kamerun: Second Battle of Garua. June–September Eastern: The Russian Great Retreat from Poland and Galicia. June 4
World War I – major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers , [ 1 ] which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred on the Triple Entente of Britain , France and Russia ) and the Central Powers (originally centred on the Triple Alliance of ...
Inflation soared, from an index of 129 in 1914 to 1589 in 1918, wiping out the cash savings of the middle-class. In terms of war damage to the economy, the war used up about 20 percent of the GDP. The dead soldiers amounted to about four percent of the 1914 labor force, and the wounded ones to another six percent.
From 5 to 16 August 1914, the Belgians successfully resisted the numerically superior Germans, and inflicted surprisingly heavy losses on their aggressors. The German Second Army , comprising 320,000 men, crossed into neutral Belgium in keeping to the Schlieffen Plan , with the ultimate goal of attacking France from the north.
The crisis began on 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. A complex web of alliances, coupled with the miscalculations of numerous political and military leaders (who either regarded war as ...