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World War I, Russian Revolution, These empires kept fighting for…

- - - - Tried to help the allies to defeat the central powers
        
        Tried to maintain peace between nations and avoid / prevent future wars.
  - - - from the treaty Germany loses a lot of strength
      - France did not want an egemony for Germany, but on the other hand, Great Britain did not want to leave them in ruin but they did want them to suffer a punishment
        
        Conditions were set:
        
        They had to return some territories
        
        Germany finished paying these until 2010.
- - - - This is what became known as trench warfare.
        
        Soldiers fought each other from trenches.
        
        Life in the trenches was pure misery. "The men slept in mud, washed in mud, ate mud, and dreamed mud", wrote a soldier.
        
        The trenches were filled with rats. Fresh food was far from exist, and sleep was nearly impossible.
        
        The space between the opposing trenches won the name "no man's land." When officers ordered an attack, their men went over the top of their trenches into this bombed - out landscape
        
        There they usually met murderous rounds of machine-gun fire.
  - - - After failing in their front attack against France, the German army started the attack to Belgium and occupied Ypres, Gante and Brujas.
        
        The battle of the Marne was one of the most important events of the war.
        
        The defeat of the Germans destroyed the Schlieffen Plan. A victory in the west was no longer possible.
        
        Russian forces had already invaded Germany. Realizing this, the German high command sent thousands of troops from France to help its forces in the east.
- - - - The Russian people blamed the tsar for entering the war and having many young men killed. The Tsar was forced to give up his throne and a new government took over. The government was run by two political parties: the Petrograd Soviet (representing the workers and soldiers) and the Provisional Government (the traditional government without the Tsar, also known as de Marxist, communist government).
        
        From 1918 to 1920, Russia experienced a civil war between the Bolsheviks (also called the Red Army) and the anti-Bolsheviks (the White Army). The Bolsheviks won and the new country was called the USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republic).
- - - - They charged Serbia a "to - do list" because of the assassination of the archduke. It included a really high amount of money that they couldn't pay, so Serbia declared war against Austro - Hungary.