The 1918 Flu Pandemic

Tsar Nicholas II Николай II Алекса́ндрович Nicholas was born on the 18th May 1868 and died on the 17th July 1918. Tsar Nicholas was the last Emperor of Russia and reigned as such from the 1st November 1894 until his abdication on the 15th March 1917. After his abdication the Imperial family was kept as prisoners and then finally taken to the town of Ekaterinburg in the Spring of 1918. A contingent of the White Army was fighting their way toward the town in an attempt to liberate the Imperial fam

History Milestone: The End of World War I?

1918. World War I was still raging. Then another threat emerged. The Spanish Flu pandemic spread across the globe with devastating speed. In just two years, it infected approximately 500 million people—one-third of the world's population at that time. An estimated 50 million people died, though some historians believe the number reached 100 million. Unlike typical influenza, this strain killed healthy young adults in their prime. Hospitals were completely overwhelmed. Entire communities lost doz

Aftermath of World War I and the Rise of Nazism, 1918–1933 - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum