HIST 387 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: U-Boat, Counterpoint, Henning Von Holtzendorff
9 Nov 2018
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Bucharest was frustrating for the turks, so brest-litovsk was an opportunity. Richard kuhlmann wanted to make the germany army"s desire for conquest in the east look like national self- determination in order to appease the reichstag. Russia evacuated eastern anatoli and turkey"s frontiers. On feb 9, trotsky walked out of negotiations saying there would be no peace, no war because accepting the terms was humiliating. Three days later the central powers crossed the armistice line. The ottoman army re-entered trabzon on feb 17, 1918 and. When the russians signed the treaty on march 3, they agreed that kars, ardahan and batum would go back to. The turks said that they were advancing to protect muslims under attack from armenians. For austria-hungary the treaty of brest-litovsk raised spirits. Czernin was conflicted with the wishes of karl who wanted peace without annexations. The issue for vienna was food and therefore ukraine was an important settlement.
