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Germany’s Last Try. 1918, Germany makes one final attack into France Russia out in March 1918 Germany gets stopped at the Marne River and Paris by… American troops. Allies push the Germans back. Exhausted Germans get pushed back by the Allied Powers
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Germany’s Last Try • 1918, Germany makes one final attack into France • Russia out in March 1918 • Germany gets stopped at the Marne River and Paris by… • American troops
Allies push the Germans back • Exhausted Germans get pushed back by the Allied Powers • By the fall of 1918, Germans are getting pushed close the to German border
A few “Bubbles” Break! • Govs crumble by 1918 • Russia • Austria-Hungary • Ottoman Empire • Germany • Kaiser William II flees Russia Germany A-H Ottoman Empire
Nov 11, 1918 Armistice Day • Two days after Kaiser Wilhelm II fled Germany • Armistice means: • Agreement to stop fighting (cease-fire) • Allies view it as? • Germany views it as? • What’s the problem here?
Death & Destruction from WWI • Europe in shambles • “What” might capitalize off of that? • About 10 million dead from war • Influenza outbreak after the war…(?) • What countries have most casualties? • France • Russia • Germany • A-H
Death & Destruction from WWI • Most destruction in… • France • Belgium • Russia • New Govs • Russia – suspicious Communists • Germany – Kaiser flees • Broken Vases/Bubbles • A-H • Ottoman Empire • More death after WWI • famine • influenza
Paris Peace Conference 1919 The end of WWI…a cause of WWII What do you think it is?