USA HISTORY

In 1918 the Germans signed a harsh peace treaty with the USSR which the Big Three used to prove that the Germans did not deserve soft treatment. This was the Treaty of ____ ?

(A) Leningrad

(B) ** Brest-Litovsk

(C) Balaclava

Concept note-1: -Leading their respective delegations were foreign ministers Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) of Russia, Richard von Kuhlmann of Germany and Count Ottokar Czernin of Austria.

Concept note-2: -The treaty was agreed upon by the Russians to stop further invasion. As a result of the treaty, Soviet Russia defaulted on all of Imperial Russia’s commitments to the Allies and eleven nations became independent in eastern Europe and western Asia.

Concept note-3: -The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia’s participation in World War I.

Concept note-4: -Lenin, realizing that the new Soviet state was too weak to survive a continuation of the war, threatened to resign if the German terms were not met. On March 3 the Soviet government accepted a treaty by which Russia lost Ukraine, its Polish and Baltic territories, and Finland.

Concept note-5: -The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was the peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey). It ended Russia’s participation in World War I.