HIST 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ottoman Empire, Central Powers, Capitalism
Document Summary
World war i (1918: lenin (rus): a classless society, social justice and global independence (unclear on economic and political structure) Entente: neither gb or fra can launch a major offensive, questions about peace w/germany given brest-litovsk conditions, questions regarding the aef and coordinated forces, questions about the importance of middle eastern and italian fronts. Central powers: ah in continued slow collapse, ottoman empire disintegrating- losing mesopotamia, parts of arabia and. Palestine: germany strengthened by russian collapse, shifts divisions west for final offensive before significant us participation; domestic unrest (strikes against. Treaty of brest-litovsk: the treaty that pulls russia out of the war, trotsky leaves meeting & advises resumption of war upon terms. Germans advance 150 miles in 5 days: the terms. Russia loses estonia, finland, latvia, lithuania, poland, ukraine and. Belarus- germans occupy these areas (hope was that ukraine would provide food for central powers)
