History II / The First World War and the Interwar Collapse
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Arrange these events of the war and its aftermath, earliest first.

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  1. Three of these fall between July 1916 and March 1918.
  2. The Somme July 1916, October 1917, Brest-Litovsk March 1918, the armistice November 1918, Versailles June 1919, the reparations schedule 1921.
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  1. The first day of the Somme offensive
  2. The Bolsheviks take power in Petrograd
  3. Brest-Litovsk takes Russia out of the war
  4. The armistice ends the fighting
  5. The Treaty of Versailles is signed
  6. Reparations are fixed at 132 billion gold marks
Why

Note the two-year gap between the armistice and the reparations figure. The treaty of 1919 did not name a sum; it created a commission to name one, which it did in 1921. Arguments that treat Versailles as having imposed 132 billion in 1919 are compressing two separate decisions taken under different political conditions.

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