WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk do?
A
Allowed Russia to leave WWI
B
Made Russia an ally of Germany
C
Returned the Czar to power
D
Set Lenin as Russia’s new leader
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The treaty marked Russia’s final withdrawal from World War I and resulted in Russia losing major territorial holdings. In the treaty, Bolshevik Russia ceded the Baltic States to Germany; they were meant to become German vassal states under German princelings.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lenin believed that Russia must end its participation in the war so that the nation could focus on building a communist state based on the ideas of Karl Marx, a German philosopher who lived in the mid-1800s.

Detailed explanation-4: -treaties of Brest-Litovsk, peace treaties signed at Brest-Litovsk (now in Belarus) by the Central Powers with the Ukrainian Republic (Feb. 9, 1918) and with Soviet Russia (March 3, 1918), which concluded hostilities between those countries during World War I.

Detailed explanation-5: -The treaty that ended Russia’s participation in the First World War was signed on 3 March 1918.

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