World War 1 (3)
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- A hard-fought American victory over the Germans in France(1918)
- The Battle of Belleau Wood
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Harlem Hell Fighters
French awarded them what -
1. an African American unit that fought with the French
2. the Croix de Guerre (highest military honor) and many other military decorations - 1918 treaty between Russia and Germany that ended Russia's involvement in World War I
- Treaty of Brest-Litovska
- French and American troops defeated the Germans (October 1918)
- Battle of the Argonne Forest
- Agreement to stop fighting
- armistice
- Give up power
- abdicate
- The rapid spread of a contagious disease among large numbers of people
- epidemic
- June 1917
- The first American troops reach France
- Conditions Europeans face after the war
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1. many areas were in ruins
2. millions of people were close to starvation
3. many children were orphaned and homeless
4. many died in the flu epidemic - To avoid futher bloodshed
- Prince Max of Baden secretly cable president Wilson
- Allies accomplished what
- They Won World War 1
- He commanded the American Expeditionary Force
- General John J. Pershing
- The Germans' plan for an all-out attack against the Allies that they hoped to end the war
- The "peace offensive"
- The Bolsheviks wanted to stage a communist revolution in Russia
- Russians decide to withdraw from the war
- Bolshevicks seize power from
- Russia's Provisional Government
- Lenin embraced his ideas
- Karl Marx (German thinker of 1800s)
- Russia gives Germany what after withdrawn from the war
- large amounts of land
- Battle of Belleau lasted
- 3 weeks
- He killed 24 Germans and the remaining Germans ended up surrendering to him
- Alvin York
- Who was French Marshal Ferdinand Foch?
- commander of the Allied forces
- 1.hard-fighting troops 2.many supplies
- Helped the Allies to victory
- Two conditions president Wilson set for an armistice
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1.Germany must accept his plan for peace
2.The German emperor must abdicate - Germany became a republic
- After the German emperor resigned
- November 11, 1918 (eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month)
- World War 1 ended
- It was a betrayal
- The treaty between Russia and Germany