Problems in Germany

• What happened as a result of worsening living conditions

  A sailors mutiny in Kiel
• What did the army refuse to support

  Kaiser Willhelm's final assault
• What was critically low in the winter of 1918

  Food supplies, adults lived on less than 1,000 calories a day
• What did the kaiser do so he would be safe

  He abdicated to The Netherlands
• What arrived and killed 600,000 people in less than a year

  the Spanish flu
• What did the war create

  Serious food shortages, this led to rationing of basic foods
• What affected transport and the delivery of materials

  Serious fuel shortages
• How were living conditions worsened

  Shortages of soap, washing powder, medicines, clothing and shoes