This episode talks a bout the war on the Russian front. It includes mention of the Armenian holocaust in which the Turkish government killed 1.5 million Armenians. Turkey was affiliate with Germany and Austria. Italy entered the war on the Allied side. In an effort to alleviate some of this suffering, Russia appealed to the other allies. Germany attempted a Naval campaign in the Gallipoli Peninsula of Turkey.j This was under the command of Winston Churchill. At first the Naval vessels set to open with a bombardment hit enemy mines. When the British forces landed (New Zealand, English and Australian) the became bogged down in a stalemate. They were removed some months later with the loss of 250,000 casualties. Churchill was sacked.
The Russians continued to fight, and defended Warsaw from German invasion. However eventually their forces wore down, and Warsaw fell. At the same time Czar Nicholas lost control of his country, and the Communist rose to power. The Russians then left the war. Russia suffered about 2 million military deaths during the war and another million civilian deaths. With them leaving the war, the germans could now focus on their western front, France and England. The effect of the reinforcement from the east was first felt in Italy, as the Germans brought more divisions into the area. The war would have gone the way except the entry of the United States into the war at about the same time.
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