The July days

• Russian steamroller begins to run out of steam
• German counterattack breaks through Russian lines and takes prisoners
• General Lavr Kornilov emerges as a hero
• Chaos and unrest in Petrograd with health hazards, food shortages, and antiwar demonstrations
• Riots and looting break out in Petrograd
• Bolshevik-led protesters gain support from armed sailors
• Machine guns fired into crowds, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians
• Lenin was forced to flee Petrograd due to chaos and turmoil in Russia.
• On July 20th, the British War Policy Committee gave Haig the green light to proceed with the attack.
• There was conflict between Serbs and Croats regarding the governance of the future Yugoslavia.
• The Pact of Corfu planned a postwar union of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes as a parliamentary monarchy under the Serbian royal family.
• On July 16th, there was a mutiny among French troops on the Salonika front.
• The scheduled start date was pushed back to July 31st due to fog.
• Haig gave Gough three extra days to prepare for the attack on July 28th.
• Arthur Zimmermann resigned on July 15th, and the British royal house changed its name to Windsor on July 17th.
• Gough lacked executive and managerial skills for organizing the men and resources in Flanders.
• Hugh Gough, the youngest army commander, was to carry out the main part of the offensive.
• Kerensky was furious that the government had not taken control of the situation and determined that the new government formed on July 20th would have "dictatorial powers in order to bring the army back to discipline".
• Soldiers arrived from Dvinsk on the 19th to put down the violence.
• Lenin escaped to safety in Helsinki, but Trotsky was caught.
• The preliminary artillery barrage for the British Offensive in Flanders was already in action.
• French Generals Foch and Petain also did not believe that Haig was trying anything different.
• Around 30 of Lenin's men were arrested.
• Warrants were issued for the arrest of Lenin, Trotsky, and other Bolshevik leaders.
• The German Reichstag demanded a peace without annexations on the 19th.
• A Peace Resolution was passed, urging the government to work for peace.
• The soldiers found 70 brand new machine guns and documents showing that the Bolsheviks were getting funding from the German General Staff.
• A statement about the findings was published in the evening papers, turning the tide against the Bolsheviks.
• The new Chancellor, Michaelis, rejected the idea of a peace without annexations.
• Haig, however, felt justified by his resources and the dry weather and was in a hurry to get the offensive started.
• The torrential rains temporarily ended the hostilities on the 18th.
• The soldiers of the Petrograd garrison were to be disbanded and sent to the front, and the Kronstadt sailors were to be disarmed and sent back to their base.
• Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill did not believe that Sir Douglas Haig was trying anything different from previous offensives.