HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -After abdicating for himself and his son, Nicholas and his family were imprisoned by the Russian Provisional Government and exiled to Siberia. After the Bolsheviks took power in the October Revolution, the family was held in Yekaterinburg, where they were murdered on 17 July 1918.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although the Czar had no military aptitude, he relieved the Grand Duke in September 1915 and took personal command of the world’s largest army, with 16 million men mobilized–an army sprawled across the gigantic Eastern Front.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Russians faced a series of defeats and Nicholas was blamed. While Nicholas was at the front fighting the war, his wife Alexandra was left in charge of the country.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (also known as the Treaty of Brest in Russia) was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia’s participation in World War I.