WHICH INVOLVED NEARLY ALL THE GREATEST POWERS OF THE WORLD

THE ALLIES AND THE CENTRAL POWERS

U.S , JAPAN, ROMANIA ,SERBIA, BELGIUM, GREECE ,PORTUGAL AND MONTENEGRO

GERMANY , AUSTRIA-HUNGARY , TURKEY AND BULGARIA

ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA AND HIS PREGNANT WIFE SOFIA

AUSTRO HUNGARIAN PROVINCE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

,AND THE MAN WHO SHOT FRANZ FERDINAND AND HIS WIFE , GAVRILO PRINCIP

1.THERE WAS A TANGLE OF ALLIANCES MADE BETWEEN COUNTRIES TO MAINTAIN A BALANCE OF POWER IN EUROPE .

2.BOSNIAN CRISIS-AUSTRIA HUNGARY TOOK OVER THE FORMER TURKISH PROVINCE OF BOSNIA IN 1909 ANGERING SERBIA

4.MOROCCAN CRISIS- GERMANS WERE PROTESTING IN 1911 AGAINST THE FRENCH POSSESSION OF MOROCCO

SIR EDWARD GREY BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY, PRESIDENT WILSON U.S. , H.H ASQUITH , AND DAVID LLOYD GEORGE

OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS (MUSTARD GAS)

THE UNITED STATES INTO THE WAR

ON APRIL 6, 1917

MOBILIZED DURING WORLD WAR 1

FIRST DAY AT THE BATTLE OF SOMME

THE WAR OF THE NATIONS AND THE GREAT WAR

BRITISH SOLDIERS WHO SUFFERED TOTAL OR PARTIAL AMPUTATION

DURING WHICH TIME 116,000 WERE KILLED AND 204,000 WERE WOUNDED

OF FRANCE'S ENTIRE POPULATION WAS KILLED OR WOUNDED

OVER A MILLION CASUALTIES IN TEN MONTHS

TRENCHES IN WORLD WAR 1

OF RATS , FROGS AND LICE

FROM SHELL-SHOCK