Propaganda -1

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Propaganda-2

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War Affects the Home Front

• WWI became known as a total war (country devoted all of its resources to the war effort)

• Goal for every country to win the war• Factories converted to munitions plants• Govt. used rationing of goods for the war effort• Govt. used propaganda to keep moral up• Women were used in factories, offices and shops• Women work the front lines as nurses

Change in Russia (1917)

Czar Nicholas II Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Russia Withdraws

• Lenin first priority was to make a truce with Germany

• March 1918 signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk• Germany now sends all of its forces to the

western front• Germany will now try to end the war with one

final attack on Paris• Moving the German army from the east to the

west weakened the army

Battle of Marne Part 2• As the Germans attack, the Allies countered

with 2 million American troops

• Forced the Germans to retreat, Allies advanced into Germany

• Other areas would fall (Ottoman Turks, German soldiers mutinied and turned on the Kaiser and revolution in Austria-Hungary)

World War I Ends

• Representatives from Germany’s new govt. and French Cmdr Marshal Foch met in a railcar outside of Paris

• The two sign an Armistice which ends the war Nov. 11, 1918

• Effects of the War• 8.5 million killed, 21 million

wounded• Cost of the War $338 billion