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Events June 28 Politics: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, who was killed in Sarajevo along with his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb. [1] July 5 Politics: Austria-Hungary seeks German support for a war against Serbia in case of Russian military intervention.
However, when these and the French Fifth Army retreated following the events at Charleroi, the town was cut off from allied support, and subsequently besieged on August 25. The German heavy artillery succeeded in demolishing the key forts around the city, and General Joseph Anthelme Fournier, in command of the garrison in the city, surrendered ...
President Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany, 2 April 1917. The United States was a major supplier of war materials to the Allies but remained neutral in 1914, in large part due to domestic opposition. [7]
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."
In some cases physical abuse also occurred. Ely Green, a man who worked in a labor battalion in St. Nazaire, reported various events wherein African American men were assaulted and even murdered for breaking segregation laws that were enforced by the U.S. military. [68]
The year the United States entered World War I was marked by near disaster for the Allies on all the European fronts. A French offensive in April, with which the British cooperated, was a failure, and was followed by widespread mutinies in the French armies.
Events leading to World War I; Unification of Germany 1866–1871; Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871; Second Concert of Europe 1871; Great Eastern Crisis 1875–1878;
Nevertheless, nearly 1,000 Irish-born Americans died fighting with the US armed forces in WWI. [77] The Easter Rising in Dublin in April 1916 was defeated within a week and its leaders executed by firing squad. Both the mainstream Irish and US press treated the uprising as foolish and misguided, with later joining the British press in ...