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    August 2, 1914 (Sunday) A secret alliance was signed between Germany and the Ottoman Empire. German troops occupied Luxembourg in accordance with its Schlieffen Plan. At 7:00 pm (local time) Germany issued a 12-hour ultimatum to neutral Belgium to allow German passage into France.

  3. Feb 9, 2010 · Learn how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. Find out how the Allies and the Central Powers fought a bloody stalemate on the western and eastern fronts.

  4. August 1914 (Russian: Август четырнадцатого) is a Russian novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the defeat of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia.

  5. 4 days ago · On August 1 Germany ordered general mobilization and declared war against Russia, and France likewise ordered general mobilization. The next day Germany sent troops into Luxembourg and demanded from Belgium free passage for German troops across its neutral territory.

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  6. Find out what happened in August 1914, the month when World War I broke out. See the dates, events, and facts about the major battles, declarations, and developments in Europe and beyond.

  7. Oct 29, 2009 · On August 4, 1914, German troops crossed the border into Belgium. In the first battle of World War I, the Germans assaulted the heavily fortified city of Liege, using the most powerful weapons in...

  8. Battle of Tannenberg, (August 2630, 1914), World War I battle fought at Tannenberg, in what is now northeastern Poland, that ended in a German victory over the Russians. The crushing defeat occurred barely a month into the conflict, but it became emblematic of the Russian Empire’s experience in World War I.

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