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Propaganda -1 Origin Purpose Intended Audience Method of Distribution Propaganda-2 Origin Purpose Intended Audience Method of Distribution War Affects the Home Front • WWI became known as a total war (country devoted all of its resources to the war effort) • Goal for every country to win the war • Factories converted to munitions plants • Govt. used rationing of goods for the war effort • Govt. used propaganda to keep moral up • Women were used in factories, offices and shops • Women work the front lines as nurses Change in Russia (1917) Czar Nicholas II Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Russia Withdraws • Lenin first priority was to make a truce with Germany • March 1918 signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk • Germany now sends all of its forces to the western front • Germany will now try to end the war with one final attack on Paris • Moving the German army from the east to the west weakened the army Battle of Marne Part 2 • As the Germans attack, the Allies countered with 2 million American troops • Forced the Germans to retreat, Allies advanced into Germany • Other areas would fall (Ottoman Turks, German soldiers mutinied and turned on the Kaiser and revolution in Austria-Hungary) World War I Ends • Representatives from Germany’s new govt. and French Cmdr Marshal Foch met in a railcar outside of Paris • The two sign an Armistice which ends the war Nov. 11, 1918 • Effects of the War • 8.5 million killed, 21 million wounded • Cost of the War $338 billion