1. Winning the War

2. Total War Conscription Propaganda Production

3. Conscription Draftees by Nation –Germany – 3.4 million –Russia – 15 million –United States – 2.8 million (75% of forces)

4. Propaganda

6. Production Shell Crisis of 1915 –Failed offensive blamed on lack of artillery shells –Resulted in Munitions of War Act 1915 Factories brought under control of govt. Dictated wages, hours, and working conditions Barred people from quitting

7. Women on the Homefront

8. Revolution in Russia Russian Losses in the War October 1916 –1,800,000 dead –2,000,000 prisoners of war –1,000,000 missing –total = 5,000,000 men

9. Russian Economy Food Shortages Rising Prices Increase in Strikes Increase in Crime Long Lines, 40 hrs/wk in the city Stores Closing Increase in Prostitution, etc.

10. February Revolution, 1917 People in food lines started a demonstration> Women poured out of factories demanding bread> Women stopped at factories to get more supporters> Soldiers ordered to stop demonstrations> Soldiers join in revolt> Tsar abdicates

11. Provisional Government Continues the war Led by Alexander Kerensky

12. German Secret Weapon Lenin and 30 other revolutionaries return to Russia in April Trip received German logistical and financial support By October Lenin is leading second revolution

13. Bolshevik Revolution Bolsheviks (Lenin) Seize power Opposition Mensheviks would like to work for slow change Sign Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany in March 1918

14. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Concessions

15. Russian Civil War 1918-1922 Red Army v. White Army Red Army controls the center White Army included royalists, Mensheviks, democrats, minority populations, and the Allies Red Army wins mainly because of center concentration of forces/everyone else divided along periphery

16. Allies Win the War 3/18 Begins German Final Push – Wanted to get the upper hand before fresh American troops arrived, pushed 40 miles into France 5/18 Germans Reach Marne River Valley – German army and economy exhausted, fresh Americans arriving 7/18 Second Battle of the Marne – Allied victory, Germans pushed back into Belgium

17. Allies Win the War Allies begin Advancing toward Germany Bulgarians & Ottomans Surrender Austria-Hungary suffers internal revolution Kaiser Wilhelm I steps down & Germany becomes a Republic 11/11/18 11:00am Armistice Signed

18. Armistice Signed in Rail Car

19. Crazy Connection Hitler Uses Same Train Car to Accept French Surrender in WWII Video Link