In a secret agreement signed on 26 April in London, Italy agreed to leave the Triple Alliance, join the forces of the Triple Entente, and declare war on Austria-Hungary and Germany.
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy formed the Triple Alliance.
Over five thousand French Algerian, Moroccan and territorial troops died within ten minutes of the chlorine gas being released.
The German fighter pilot Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, was shot down and killed.
The Treaty of London was signed, which recognised and guaranteed the independence and neutrality of Belgium.
The Treaty of Rapallo meant the two countries ended all territorial and financial arguments stemming from the previous Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and agreed to ‘co-operate in a spirit of mutual goodwill in meeting the economic needs of both countries’.
The Canadian Corps successfully captured Vimy Ridge in the First World War.
The Kaiser’s speech in Tangier was a direct challenge to the French Foreign Minister, Théophile Delcassé, who had previously secured wide European support for control of Morocco.
Within 18 months the disease had become a pandemic that infected up to a third of the entire world’s population.
The country lost approximately a third of the entire Russian population alongside around one million square miles of land including fertile farmland, natural resources, and industrial areas.
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