The document discusses several key aspects of World War 1 from 1914 to 1917. It describes how the war became a total war that mobilized entire societies, with new industrialized weapons and governments directing economies and civilians towards the war effort. It outlines the Russian Revolution in 1917 caused by weak leadership under Nicholas II, the ineffectual Provisional Government, and Lenin seizing power for the Bolsheviks leading to civil war. It also explains the U.S. entry into the war in 1917 due to attacks on U.S. shipping by German U-boats and the Zimmerman Telegram, allowing the industrial might of the U.S. to support the Allies against the Central Powers.

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6. Machines Guns

8. Poison Gas

17. Shell torn forrest

18. French at Argonne

19. A French city

20. German at the Somme

21. French Cemetery

22. Germans at Flanders

23. A French Regiment

24. No man’s land

30. Germany

31. British

32. French

33. U.S.A.

35. Total casualties

38. Russian mass Grave