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- From top to bottom, left to right: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip triggers the July Crisis, leading to the outbreak of World War I; the Serbian campaign begins as Austria-Hungary invades Serbia, facing fierce resistance; the Battle of Liège sees German forces delayed by Belgian defenders, disrupting the Schlieffen Plan; the Battle of Tannenberg results in a decisive German victory over the Russian Second Army on the Eastern Front; the Siege of Tsingtao marks Japan’s entry into the war as Allied forces capture the German port in China; and the First Battle of the Marne halts the German advance into France, beginning the prolonged stalemate of trench warfare on the Western Front. (en)
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