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

• Exhausted Germans get pushed back by the Allied Powers– By the fall of

1918, Germans are getting pushed close the to German border

• Govs crumble by 1918– Russia– Austria-

Hungary– Ottoman

Empire– Germany

• Kaiser William II flees

• 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?

• 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

• 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

The end of WWI…a cause of WWIIWhat do you think it is?