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Germany (with Austria) was solely responsible for the war and had to pay reparations

What did the "war guilt clause" in the Treaty of Versailles declare?

Military officers were stripped of their authority and power was placed in the hands of elected committees of soldiers

What did the Petrograd Soviet Army Order No. 1 state?

The Bolsheviks wanted a small, disciplined party, while the Mensheviks wanted a democratic party with mass-membership

How did Lenin and the Bolsheviks' view of the Marxist party in Russia differ from the Mensheviks' view of the party?

He appealed to soldiers, peasants, and workers

How did Lenin gain popular support upon his return to Russia in 1917?

An unplanned uprising of hungry and angry people in the capital

What was the February Revolution in Russia in 1917?

The German invasion of neutral Belgium

What was the immediate cause of British entry into the First World War?

The Ottoman Empire ordered their mass deportation from their homeland, resulting in about a million Armenian deaths from murder, starvation, and disease

What happened to Armenian inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire during World War I?

Nationalistic aristocrats

Who assassinated Grigori Rasputin in 1916?

They believed that improved submarines could starve Britain into submission before the United States could come to Britain's rescue

Why did German military command recommence submarine warfare in the Atlantic despite knowing that it would lead the United States to enter the war against them?

They had little alternative, especially as the naval blockade was still in place and the German people were starving

Why did Germans accept the Treaty of Versailles?