A few women joined the military as soldiers. How were they able to join?

There were rumors that they would trade sexual favors for their military ranks, as it says in a article by History. The truth is, that the US Representative Edith Rogers allowed women to enlist in the Army, where they could serve overseas.

the treaty of brest-litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 march 1918 between the new bolshevik government of russia and the central powers (german empire, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and the ottoman empire), that ended russia's participation in world war i.

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