WW1

1918

This is where most of the action took place on the European mainland where many hundreds of thousands of troops died as the last Russian troops left the border of conflict and hundreds of thousands more fled the cities of both Petrograd and Moscow as the communists revolted out of the cities spreading the ideas of hate and violence across Siberia but still the Russian soldiers who opposed communism were still exhausted from the fighting in WW1 and were broken.

Lenin seeing the issues with Germany they decided to finally get a peace treaty involved and in 1918 they finally signed one with the Kaiser as Lenin ended the eternal conflict with Germany and brought "peace" to the Eastern front for now...

In France many of the Trenches were becoming to be unstuck as many offensives had begun such as Marne but with the American forces arriving on French soil the Germans needed to counterattack quickly to make France and Britain submit but despite their 4 major attacks they used up all their supplies and were forced to retreat.

The Greek forces alongside the allies had pushed back into what was occupied Serbia and Montenegro and the overwhelmed Bulgarian forces were struggling to hold the front straight as places like Doiran and Crna bridge were assaulted and retreated.
The Ottomans were suffering even worse after nearly 4,000,000 innocent ethnic Armenians were murdered in the Armenian genocide of 1916 and were retreating as Baghdad was taken alongside Israeli and Palestinian land was also taken by the British.

Eventually in Italy Germany had to pull out its forces from Italy to supply the western front against the American onslaught and without German support and funding Austria Hungary was left to fight Italy alone who hadn't done as much fighting as Austria Hungary. And bit by bit the Austro Hungarian armies were driven out of Italy locked in holdings against South Tyrol and was suffering internal revolts from ethnic minorities like the Czechs, Slovaks and the Romanians who were causing chaos for the leftover weak government.

Eventually the Bulgarian forces didnt have a choice and they were forced to surrender the war on the 24th September 1918 and was the first Central powers nation to surrender to the Triple Entente in 1918. Then by following suit the Ottoman government were collapsing as many ethnic groups like in Austria Hungary were causing chaos among them meaning they needed to stop the bloodshed and save the many innocent lives and on the 30th October 1918 the Ottomans surrendered their forces and allowed British and French control of the Middle east as Saudi Arabia was formed alongside Yemen and Oman. The entirety of the Middle east was completely in Allied hands in 1918.

The Bulgarian forces surrendered the Austro Hungarian armies having to fight on two fronts the Balkans and Italy where neither of the fronts they would win any battles and only continue to retreat to Vienna and Budapest so with no choice at hands had to surrender the war on the 3rd of November 1918 where the government let the country collapse and chaos ensued as many new smaller countries like Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary and Croatia/Bosnia aswell. Leaving Germany and the Kaiser alone in the fight as many German forces began to retreat from the Trenches back into Germany where they were awaiting their orders.

The German economy and trade had gone completely bankrupt as their debt trebled and went from 50 billion marks to 150 billion marks in just 4 years as millions of Germans were starving or at most Hungry meaning the people began to protest as the Kaiser was ordered to abdicate the throne but refused before the army turned on him in which he had no choice but to Surrender himself and exiled to Holland for the next decades over. All the power was handed over to the government and the SDP (Social Democratic party) which in return they believed Germany would no longer be able to fight the war without more deaths and on the 11th of November at 11:00 the first World war had come to an end with the signing of the world famous armistice signed. Millions died of both starvation and military frontline deaths. And Germany was ordered to pull out of all the areas it was currently occupying which was half of Belgium, German Bolshevik dealed lands and parts of Finland. Which meant that it would have no military essence anywhere anymore.

Lenin, long waiting for Germany to lose the war was getting the Bolshevik forces ready to reclaim all the lost land that was taken by Germany in 1917 and Ukraine, Belorussia the Baltics and Poland were not ready to see such immense power unleashed in the new form of the red army would crush everything that got in it's way.

The Ottoman empire was carved up into spheres of influence and some areas which were oppressed by the Ottoman government had their independence such as Saudi Arabia and British took Yemen and Oman and also Kuwait as their war territory they had taken. Many spheres of influence were full of poor Turkish people who never wanted the war to go this way let alone even join the war in October 1914. Which left fiery rage that would burn in their heart till revenge was achieved which would cause the Turkish war of independence in 1923.

Austria Hungary was dismantled into smaller states who were all at war with each other as they all tried to claim as much land as they could with many disputes around them. Particularly Hungary because it was plane over by a communist dictator who attempted to invade every country around them.

The war was finally over with Millions of lives lost and many billions affected by the war later in the times and many were still starving as 750,000 starved in Germany the country was bankrupt and full of debt to other countries. And inflation kicked off with poor government decisions later on.