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Before WW1 Russia was being run by only Nicholas the second and thus was very dissorganized. The country could not be run by just one man. Russia had the biggest army in Europe, but because the couldn't get the money together they could only call a fraction of the army at a time. http://www.historyman.co.uk/Russia/index..html,
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This is the date when Germany declares war on Russia. http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/ww1declarations.html
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Shortley after Germany, Austria joins against Russia. http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/ww1declarations.html
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The first tanks were used by the british on this day. http://www.shmoop.com/wwi/timeline.html
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Germany sunk 7 of the US's merchant ships by submarines. Willson declared war on Germany, and was approved by Congress on this date.
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Russia had to leave the war because of the start of a revolution in their own country.
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This is when the Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian government. http://www.emersonkent.com/wars_and_battles_in_history/russian_revolution_of_1917.htm#Bolshevik_Revolution
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Russia seperatle signed a peace treaty with Germany on this day called the Brest-Litovsk treaty. http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwari/p/World-War-I.htm
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Tsar Nicolas II, his wife, children and servants were herded into the cellar of their prison house and executed. (http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/nicholas.htm)
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Effects:
The German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires end.
Soviet Russia loses control of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland, but manages to keep Ukraine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_1
