END OF THE WAR
Germany thought they were going to win the war because of the astonishing advances at the start of 1918. Despite the advances Germany fell apart at the end of the war.
Russia’s Exit
Russia’s exit from the war in 1917 made Germanys leaders think victory had to be there’s. From the early months of the war, the German government had been in touch wit exiled Russian revolutionaries, many of them were Bolsheviks, in the hope that they would be used to undermine the Russian war effort against Germany.
This did not pay of in the first years of the war. The revolution in February 1917 this toppled the Russian tsarist regime. This raised Germans hopes that Russia would exit the war. These hopes didn’t last for long because there was a new liberal government in Russia, they then decided to continue fighting against Germany and all the central powers.
Towards the end of march. However, the German foreign office and the high command agreed to send one of the exiled Bolshevik leaders his name was Vladimir Lenin, and another 31 émigrés opposed to the tsarists and the liberals from Switzerland back to Russia.
They did this in hopes that they would topple the provisional government and sue which would bring an end to Russia’s involvement in the war. Then a sealed train passed through Germany at night on the 10th of April, the conspirators were hidden on board and then a few months later the policy was crowned with great success.
There was weariness all over the general ppulation of Russia and that was the major cause of the October revolution of that year; this brought the Bolsheviks to power. Almost the first act of the new government was the proposal of the peace on the 8th of November . all the fighting on the eastern front ended after a few weeks and the peace conference began its deliberation at Brest Litovsk on the 22nd of December 1917.
Armistice
The allies pushed on the German border on October the 17th. The British, French and Americans had advanced, the alliance
Russia’s Exit
Russia’s exit from the war in 1917 made Germanys leaders think victory had to be there’s. From the early months of the war, the German government had been in touch wit exiled Russian revolutionaries, many of them were Bolsheviks, in the hope that they would be used to undermine the Russian war effort against Germany.
This did not pay of in the first years of the war. The revolution in February 1917 this toppled the Russian tsarist regime. This raised Germans hopes that Russia would exit the war. These hopes didn’t last for long because there was a new liberal government in Russia, they then decided to continue fighting against Germany and all the central powers.
Towards the end of march. However, the German foreign office and the high command agreed to send one of the exiled Bolshevik leaders his name was Vladimir Lenin, and another 31 émigrés opposed to the tsarists and the liberals from Switzerland back to Russia.
They did this in hopes that they would topple the provisional government and sue which would bring an end to Russia’s involvement in the war. Then a sealed train passed through Germany at night on the 10th of April, the conspirators were hidden on board and then a few months later the policy was crowned with great success.
There was weariness all over the general ppulation of Russia and that was the major cause of the October revolution of that year; this brought the Bolsheviks to power. Almost the first act of the new government was the proposal of the peace on the 8th of November . all the fighting on the eastern front ended after a few weeks and the peace conference began its deliberation at Brest Litovsk on the 22nd of December 1917.
Armistice
The allies pushed on the German border on October the 17th. The British, French and Americans had advanced, the alliance