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World War I

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26 events · 1912 – 1920 · Generated 2026-09-21 · Prepared by teach.erapin.com
1912
Balkan Wars (1912–1913)
ADRIANOPLE (EDIRNE) · OTTOMAN EMPIRE (MODERN TURKEY)
A fortress city where two rivers meet on a flat plain in the far southeastern corner of Europe, guarding the overland gateway between two continents where three countries now…
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1914
First Battle of the Marne
MEAUX · FRANCE
Armies clash on rolling farmland beside a river about 40 kilometers east of a great capital, where a tributary winds down to join the Seine.
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1912
1914
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1914
First Battle of Ypres
YPRES · BELGIUM
Fierce fighting erupts in a low-lying city on the European coast facing England across a narrow channel, between the Rhine delta and the Strait of Dover.
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1914
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
SARAJEVO · BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
A river city in the Balkan Peninsula, tucked between the Adriatic Sea and the Danube basin, south of Hungary.
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1914
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1914
Battle of Tannenberg
TANNENBERG · GERMANY
A massive encirclement battle unfolds on the flat, lake-dotted plains of northeastern Europe, between the Baltic Sea and the Masurian marshes.
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1914
Christmas Truce of 1914
YPRES · BELGIUM
Soldiers emerge from muddy trenches onto flat lowland fields, in a small country wedged between France, Germany, and the North Sea coast.
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1914
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1915
Gallipoli campaign
CONSTANTINOPLE · OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Soldiers dug into a narrow peninsula where a famous strait separates Europe from Asia, between the Aegean and a landlocked sea to the northeast.
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1916
Battle of the Somme
ALBERT · FRANCE
Armies clash for months across flat river-valley farmland on the continent's northwest edge, roughly halfway between Paris and the narrow channel facing England.
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1915
1916
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1916
Battle of Verdun
VERDUN · FRANCE
A months-long artillery siege grinds through a fortified river valley in the heart of Western Europe, where the Meuse cuts through low hills between the Rhine and the English…
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1916
Arab Revolt
MECCA · OTTOMAN EMPIRE (PRESENT-DAY SAUDI ARABIA)
A desert uprising erupts in a city straddling the narrow coastal plain between the Red Sea and the Hejaz Mountains, near the western edge of the Arabian Peninsula.
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1916
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1916
Battle of Jutland
NORTH SEA (OFF JUTLAND) · DENMARK
Two massive warship fleets clash in the shallow waters of a marginal sea, where the Jutland Peninsula juts north from the European mainland toward Scandinavia.
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1916
Sykes-Picot Agreement
LONDON · UNITED KINGDOM
Diplomats met in a great island capital on the northwest edge of Europe, where the Thames meets its tidal estuary, facing the continent across a narrow channel.
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1916
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1917
Balfour Declaration
LONDON · UNITED KINGDOM
A letter signed in a capital city on a large island off the northwest edge of continental Europe, separated from the mainland by a narrow sea.
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1917
Bolshevik Seizure of Power (October Revolution)
PETROGRAD · RUSSIA
Armed fighters storm a government palace on a wide river delta plain, deep inside the largest country on Earth, near the eastern edge of Europe where it meets the vast Eurasian…
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1917
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1917
United States Enters World War I
WASHINGTON, D.C. · UNITED STATES
A legislative chamber on the eastern seaboard of North America, where the Atlantic coast faces Europe across a vast ocean, formally commits to a war being fought across that water.
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1917
Zimmermann Telegram
WASHINGTON, D.C. · UNITED STATES
A secret diplomatic message causes an uproar in a low-lying capital on a tidal river near the Atlantic seaboard, midway down the eastern coast of North America.
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1917
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1918
Operation Michael
SAINT-QUENTIN · FRANCE
A massive assault erupts across flat chalk lowlands between the English Channel coast and the Meuse River, midway between Paris and Brussels.
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1918
Armistice Day and End of World War I on the Western Front
COMPIÈGNE · FRANCE
A railway carriage hidden in a dense forest sits on flat land north of the Seine, roughly halfway between the English Channel coast and the heart of the Paris basin.
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1918
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1918
Wilson's Fourteen Points Address
WASHINGTON, D.C. · UNITED STATES
A president addresses lawmakers in a capital city on the Atlantic seaboard of North America, where the Potomac River meets the flat coastal plain between the Appalachian Mountains…
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1918
Influenza Pandemic of 1918
CAMP FUNSTON, KANSAS · UNITED STATES
A deadly illness sweeps through a vast military training camp on the flat interior plains of North America, far from any coast, near the geographic heart of a continent.
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1918
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1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
BREST-LITOVSK · RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Diplomats gather in a fortified city on the flat plains of Eastern Europe, where the Bug River crosses the border zone between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea.
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1918
Armistice of 11 November 1918
COMPIÈGNE · FRANCE
where a forested river valley lies just north of a great capital, not far inland from a narrow northern sea
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1918
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1919
Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)
PARIS · FRANCE
Diplomats gathered in a grand capital on a river midway between the English Channel and the Alps, in western Europe's largest Atlantic-facing nation.
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1919
U.S. Senate Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles
WASHINGTON, D.C. · UNITED STATES
A federal capital between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay, on the Atlantic seaboard between New York and Virginia.
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1919
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1919
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
VERSAILLES · FRANCE
A vast royal palace and geometric gardens on a low plateau just outside one of Europe's greatest river capitals, built by a king who moved his whole court there.
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1920
Formation of the League of Nations
GENEVA · SWITZERLAND
Delegates gather in a landlocked Alpine city beside a long lake, flanked by the Jura range to the west and the Alps to the south.
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1919
1920
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