what were the key events of the battle of the somme?
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['1–13 July — Battle of Albert.', '2 July — Capture of Fricourt.', '2–6 July — Capture of La Boiselle.', '9–13 July — Capture of Mametz Wood and Contalmaison.', '11–12 July — Germans suspend operations at Verdun.', '14–17 July — Battle of Bazentin Ridge.']
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['4 August 1914: Canada at War. ... ', '22 August 1914: War Measures Act. ... ', '22 April 1915: Battle of Second Ypres. ... ', '1 July 1916: Beaumont Hamel. ... ', '9 to 12 April 1917: Battle of Vimy Ridge. ... ', '20 September 1917: Wartime Elections Act. ... ', '26 October to 10 November 1917: Battle of Passchendaele. ... ', '17 December 1917: Federal Election.']
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["5 January 1757: Louis XV cheats an assassin's blade. On 5 January 1757, Versailles shivered under a thick blanket of snow. ... ", '9 January 1806: Nelson makes his final journey. ... ', '25 January 1077: Henry IV bends his knee to the pope at Canossa. ... ', "20 January 1265: England's first parliament meets."]
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At the time Prime Minister Winston Churchill called it “a miracle of deliverance”. On 12th May 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of France. ... As a result the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), as well as French, Canadian and Belgian troops, found themselves fighting against overwhelming odds.
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['Nov 11, 1918. Treaty of Versailles. ... ', 'Jul 4, 1926. Hitler Youth is formed. ... ', 'Jan 30, 1933. Hitler becomes Chancellor. ... ', 'Feb 27, 1933. Reichstag Fire. ... ', 'Aug 2, 1934. Hitler becomes Fuhrer. ... ', 'Mar 1, 1939. Germany Annexes Czechoslovakia. ... ', 'Sep 1, 1939. War is Declared on Poland. ... ', 'Sep 27, 1939. Warsaw Surrenders.']
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['Waking the Tiger.', 'Man the Guns (could be no. 1 if you enjoy naval warfare more)', 'Together for Victory.', 'Death or Dishonor.', 'La Résistance.']
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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['Battle of Fort Sumter.', 'First Battle of Bull Run.', 'Battle of the Ironclads.', 'Battle of Shiloh.', 'Battle of Antietam.', 'Battle of Fredericksburg.', 'Battle of Chancellorsville.', 'Siege of Vicksburg.']
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['June 28, 1914. Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated.', 'July 28, 1914. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I.', 'August 2-7, 1914. Germany invades Luxembourg and Belgium. ... ', 'August 10, 1914. Austria-Hungary invades Russia.', 'September 9, 1914. ... ', 'February 18, 1915. ... ', 'April 25, 1915. ... ', 'May 7, 1915.']
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['7 July 1937: Clash near the Marco Polo Bridge, close to Beijing. ... ', '10 May 1940: Germans launch offensive in the West. ... ', '12 August 1940: Battle of Britain begins. ... ', '22 June 1941: Launching of Operation Barbarossa. ... ', '7 December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor. ... ', '4 June 1942: Battle of Midway.']
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Battle of Jutland, also called Battle of the Skagerrak, (May 31–June 1, 1916), the only major encounter between the main British and German battle fleets in World War I, fought near the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea, about 60 miles (97 km) off the west coast of Jutland (Denmark).
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Veterans Day. The Allied powers signed a ceasefire agreement with Germany at Rethondes, France, at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918, bringing the war now known as World War I to a close. ... Between the world wars, November 11 was commemorated as Armistice Day in the United States, Great Britain, and France.
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['Great Depression. USSR Collectivizes Agriculture. ... ', 'Empire State Building. The Star-Spangled Banner Named U.S. National Anthem. ... ', 'Franklin Roosevelt Elected President. World War I Veterans Bonus March on Washington.', 'New Deal Begins. Prohibition Repealed. ... ', 'Dust Bowl. ... ', 'Germany Enacts Nuremberg Laws. ... ', 'Hoover Dam. ... ', 'Hindenberg Explosion.']
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5 April – four British soldiers were killed in a bomb blast near the Iraqi city of Basra. 12 April – the anchor handling tug supply vessel Bourbon Dolphin capsized in the North Sea. Three people died and four were missing.
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Anzac Day, 25 April, is one of Australia's most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.
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['Dominguez-Escalante Expedition.', 'Donner-Reed Party.', "Mormons' Arrival.", 'Walker War.', 'Woman Suffrage.', 'Utah War.', 'Mountain Meadows Massacre.', 'Black Hawk War.']
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['Khalid ibn Walid. ... ', 'Frederick the Great. ... ', 'Conquest of Gaul. (58 BC) by Caesar.', 'March across the Alps. (218 BC) by Hannibal.', 'Defeat of Persia. (334 BC – 329 BC) by Alexander.', 'Mongol Invasion of China. (1218 – 79)', 'Defeat of the Third Coalition. (1805) by Napoleon.', 'Fall of France. 1940.']