1.2 Fight at the eastern front

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For today

Fighting at the eastern front

Goals

• In this paragraph you will learn who fought each other in World War I and why the war started
  
• In this paragraph you will learn how the war started.
  
• In this paragraph you will learn how the war went in the east.
  
• In this paragraph you will learn how the war went in the west.

HW

Read 1.2 A quick start

Make assignments 3, 4, 5 and support 5

Recap

• who fought each other in World War I?
• What were the causes for the emergence of World War I?
• What was the cause of World War I?
• What caused a two-front war to occur?

(1.2) Fight at the eastern front

• Russia mobilized quickly
  --> Two-front war
• In August, the Russians invaded
  East Prussia and Austria.

Because the western front was stuck, the Germans transferred troops to the eastern front in 1915.

In 1916, the Russians fought back and penetrated deep into Austria, but then it was over with Russia's military strength.

Unrest

• Russian industry was too small to supply the troops with clothing, food, arms, ammunition and other necessities.
  
• --> food shortages led to unrest.
  
  
• Tsar Nicholas II was deposed in February 1917 after an uprising.
  
  
• --> March 1918 the Peace of Brest-Litovsk

Drag and drop the four events below into the correct time sequence:

Russia participates in World War I.

Communists storm the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

Tsar Nicholas II and his family are brutally murdered.

Russian leader Putin keeps tsar worship alive.

Drag question: Drag the answer corresponding to the question to the gray box. Two cards remain.

Question 1: Beginning of the Russian Revolution is in the year:

Question 2: Which words (2) fit the 

conditions of the peasants in Russia? 

Question 3: True or false. Russia was a modern country.

Question 4: True or false. Lenin became the leader of the

communists

Question 5: Fill in the dots. The .... army was very 

weak. Therefore, there were many deaths.

Question 6: Do you remember this? The end of the First 

World War is in the year: 

Other two:

Rich

1917

Bad

Poor

False

True

1918

Russian

German

Get to work

Read 1.2 Fight at the eastern front

Make assignment 6 and support 6

Goals

• In this paragraph you will learn who fought each other in World War I and why the war started
• In this paragraph you will learn how the war started.
• In this paragraph you will learn how the war went in the east.
• In this paragraph you will learn how the war went in the west.