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The End of World War I

The End of World War I. The Silence was Deafening. Russia Pulls Out of War. Communists under V.I. Lenin take over Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - a peace treaty with Central Powers. Battle of the Somme - March 1918. Germany feels it has one last chance

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The End of World War I

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  1. The End of World War I The Silence was Deafening

  2. Russia Pulls Out of War • Communists under V.I. Lenin take over • Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - a peace treaty with Central Powers

  3. Battle of the Somme - March 1918 • Germany feels it has one last chance • Major attack on France to capture Paris • Allies stop it 30 miles away • 250,000 casualties for Germany, slightly lower for Allies in 3 days

  4. Allies on theAttack • By July, 1918 the US had 1 million fresh troops in France • Allies have momentum and push western front towards Germany

  5. The End for Germany • German citizens have food riots and strikes • Soldiers begin to desert • Kaiser Wilhelm II is forced to leave the throne • 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, Germany signs an armistice (truce)

  6. Serbian refugees fleeing with their belongings

  7. Canadian soldier lighting German prisoner's cigarette, Passchendaele, Nov, 1917

  8. Canadian engineers rebuilding bridge destroyed by retreating Germans

  9. German prisoners in a French camp

  10. Germans camped in a trench

  11. Russian Poles searching the ashes of their former home

  12. German mail call

  13. German soldiers in Antwerp feeding orphans

  14. British soldiers blinded by gas attack

  15. British stretcher bearers near Bossinghe, 1 Aug 1917 (Pilckem Ridge/Passchendaele)

  16. US 1st Army Post Band (Colored) - Souilly. France, 1918

  17. US 364th Infantry, homecoming parade, Los Angeles, CA, 22 Apr 1919

  18. French children watching advancing column of 101st Ammunition Train, Soulosse, 10 Apr 1918

  19. "Combat is a drag!" Men of the US 27th Division trying on the latest fashions, Oudezeele, 8 Aug 1918

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