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Year 1914: War and upheaval redefine a world
In 1914 war erupts across Europe transforming the year into a global crisis. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after an ultimatum over Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, drawing in Russia Britain Germany and their allies as Belgium’s neutrality prompts invasion and naval warfare spreads from the Baltic to the Atlantic.
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Servia
Franz Ferdinand
Russia
Austria
Bervia
Great
von Pourtales
St. Petersburg
Martial
France
Brigiands
Germany
Belgium
Grand Duchy of
Luxemburg
Great Britain
Austria-Hungary
England
Japan
Scandinavia
Holland
Portugal
Turkey
Bulgearia
Black Sea
Greece
Balkan
Italy
Berlin
Vienna
Liege
Paris
Asia
Kiauchau
China
Egypt
Africa
Suez Canal
North Sea
Baltic
New York
Kiel Canal
Emden
Pacific
Karlsruhe
Atlantic
Chile
Monmouth
Good Hope
Ireland
Scharnhorst
Gneisau
Nuernberg
Von 8
Frederick Sturdee
Falkland Islands
Dresden
Hartlepool
Whitby
Scarborough
Poland
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Mexico
Wilson
Huerta
Niagara Falls
Canada
Europe
McIseo Carbajal
Carranza
Carbajal
Chamber of Deputies
Venustiano Carranas
Villa
Mexico City
Aguas Calientes
Eulalio Gutierrez
Vera Cruz
Zapata
Gutierrez
United States
Naco
Sixty Third Congress
Senate
Alaska
House
Congress
Panama
Tampico
Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Secretary of the Treasury
Sixty-third
McAdoo
Houston
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank
Washington
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Boston
Maine
Panama Canal Zone
Col
George W. Goethals
Pcares
Lehigh Valley
Department of Justice
New Haven
Hartford
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Road
American Thread Company
United States Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
New Haven Road
United States District Court
St. Paul
Minn
Panama Canal
Ancon
Panama Railroad
Ocean
Mississippi
Potomac
Atlantic Steamship Trust
Steel Trust
Philadelphia
House of Representatives
Michel Oreste
Haiti
Orestes Zamor
Jose Vicente Concha
Colombia
Mme. Caillaux
Figaro
Gaston Calmette
Mme
Caillaux
Constantinople
Alexander of
Teck
Queen Mary
Benavides
Billinghurst
Roberto Legula
Supreme Court
Ahmed Mirza
Shah of
Persia
Rene Viviani
William of Wied
Burhan-Eddin
Abdul Hamid
Essad Pasha
Albania
Charles of
Roumania
Ferdinand
Ford Motor Company
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Seth Sevarice
Ohio
J. P. Morgan & Co
Orats
Jharge
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Carnegie
Church Peace Union
International Surgical Congress
New York City
Cod
Cape
Eleanor Randolph Wilson
White House
William Gibbs McAdoo
the Treasury
Norway
Denmark
Durbar III
Herman B. Duryea
Daughters of the Confederacy
National Cemetery
Arlington
Meadowbrook
N. Y
Morris K. Jesup
Brston
Ama Canal
Culebra
Chicago
House of Governk
Wis
New Orleans