March 1917 – Riots protesting the shortage of food forced Russia’s Czar Nicholas II from power
· President Wilson, believing the Allies would now be stronger, asked Congress to declare war shortly thereafter.
November 1917 – The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power in Russia and began the communist revolution.
· Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and dropped out of the war.
· Germany then sent their troops on the Eastern Front to the Western Front.
Communism – a theory that supports the elimination of private property and the equal distribution of goods
Facts:
· Created by the German philosopher Karl Marx.
· Supports the violent revolution of the working class against the “bourgeois” ruling class.
· Led by a single, authoritarian political party.
