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On 28th June 1914 in Sarajevo, Gavrilo Princip (a Slav nationalist) assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the killing, and because Europe was linked by a series of diplomatic alliances, the affair escalated into full-scale war.
After the 1917 October Revolution, Russian forces were no longer at war. Released from the Eastern Front, Germany launched a major offensive on the Western Front in the spring of 1918. Despite some minor successes, by July the Germans had failed to break the Allied lines signalling the war was reaching its conclusion.
Allied counter-offensives at the Marne and at Amiens were successful and in the early autumn, the Germans were forced back beyond the Hindenburg line freeing much of occupied France and Belgium. An armistice between the Allied forces and Germany was signed in the Forest of Compiegne and fighting stopped at 11am on 11th November.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire |
King George V King of the United Kingdom |
Herbert Asquith British Prime Minister |
Kaiser Wilhelm II German Emperor King of Prussia |
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