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| - In 1914, a Bosnian-Serb terrorist group blew up Schönbrunn Palace Vienna, killing Austrian-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I, his nephew and heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and most of their families. In response, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The Russian Empire declared war on Austria-Hungary, resulting in Germany declaring war on Russia. Eventually the Franco-Spanish and British Empires declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Great War continued in a deadlocked stalemate fighting mainly concentrated in the trenches.
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| - In 1914, a Bosnian-Serb terrorist group blew up Schönbrunn Palace Vienna, killing Austrian-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I, his nephew and heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and most of their families. In response, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The Russian Empire declared war on Austria-Hungary, resulting in Germany declaring war on Russia. Eventually the Franco-Spanish and British Empires declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Great War continued in a deadlocked stalemate fighting mainly concentrated in the trenches. After a British submarine sank an American passenger ship in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued an ultimatum for the British to either stop using submarines or face a declaration of war. Feeling threatened, the British, Franco-Spanish, and Russians came up with a new battle plan on dealing with the United States should they join in on the War. In 1917, Woodrow Wilson died in his sleep from a heart attack. Shortly after, Vice President Thomas Marshall became the new President. Feeling a new stroke of luck from the recent turn of events, the Allied Powers decides to prepare an attack on America. Then in late 1917, Russian forces in Alyeska (Alaska) invaded the United States while a British strike force struck New York. After months of defeat after defeat on the battlefield, a young American resistance fighter named Al Capone and several of his friends had formed an underground resistance group based in New York which didn't fight against the British using conventional tactics. They would hit them and disappear before the British were able to touch them. This resulted in Al Capone's resistance group being named, “The Untouchables”. However, Al Capone knew that in order to defeat the British, he would need to coordinate with the United States military to drive the invaders back to the sea. So he was quietly smuggled into “Free America”, where he then traveled to Washington to meet with President Marshall to ask for official military assistance.. Despite how much he implored the President to send troops to help the New York resistance, he stated that the troops were needed to be stationed in the southern states in case of a possible secessionist attempt. Al Capone left in anger and went back to New York to fight the British. Later on, General John J. Pershing was on his way to report on the War when he overheard President Thomas Marshall and Edith Wilson talking about how they conspired to poison the late-President Woodrow Wilson. Disgusted by this fact as well as the President's incompetent leadership in the face of the enemy, General Pershing staged a coup and took control of the US Government. Shortly after, de facto President Pershing's leadership could be felt throughout the country by mid-1920. The US Army joined up with Al Capone's resistance group in New York and slowly pushed British from the city. In Alyeska (Alaska), the US military had turned the tables against the Russian Imperial forces and had them on full retreat. In late 1920, German Kaiser Wilhelm ll arranged for Vladimir Lenin to return to Russia. From there, Lenin started the October Revolution. In the end, the Czar was overthrown. The new Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic then made peace with the German Empire and the United States. They signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which ceded Poland to Germany and allowed the Germans to occupy a portion of Belarus and the Ukraine until the end of the War. A separate part of the same treaty handed over Alyeska (Alaska) to the United States of North America. With Russia out of the War, the British and French knowing they were beaten signed an Armistice with Germany and the United States. This ended the First World War.
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