UGC 112 Lecture 19: UGC 112-Lecture 19
14 Apr 2016
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The causes of the war: assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, rivalry between great britain and germany & military alliances. Battlefronts, stalemate, and carnage: trenches to the western front went from the english channel to the alps. Machine guns and barbed wire guarded the trenches. The horror of war reached across continent: the ottoman empire, which joined the central powers, battled the british and. Russia in egypt, asian minor, mesopotamia, and the caucasus. 1915 the armenian genocide: anzac troops, german african and asian colonies were invaded. Soviet russia signed the treaty of brest-litovsk, a peace treaty with the. The bolsheviks relocated their government to moscow to create a socialist soviet go. The fall of the central powers: the united states" entry into the war in 1917 tipped the balance in the favor of the. Allies: german generals agreed to an armistice in november 1918. Kaiser wilhelm ii fled the country, and the empire became a republic.
