World War I: final year of the war: January 1918-November 1918

By mclendening

  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson makes "Fourteen Points" speech to Congress.

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    WWI: final year: :January 1918- November 1918

  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson makes "Four Principles" speech to Congress.

  • Soviet Russia concludes separate peace negotiations in treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  • Germany launches Spring push, eventually mounting five major offensives against Allied forces, starting with the Battle of Picardy against the British

  • Doullens Agreement gives General Ferdinand Foch "co-ordinating authority" over the Western Front

  • Germany launches second Spring offensive, the Battle of the Lys, in the British sector of Armentieres

  • Foch appointed Commander-in-Chief of Allied forces on Western Front

  • German U-boats appear in US waters for first time

  • Third German Spring offensive, Third Battle of the Aisne, begins in French sector along Chemin des Dames

  • US forces (28th Regiment of 1st Division) victorious in first major action, Battle of Cantigny

  • US 3rd Division captures Bouresches and southern part of Belleau Wood

  • Germans launch fourth Spring offensive, Battle of the Matz, in French sector between Noyan and Montdider

  • Italians prevail against Austro-Hungarian forces at Battle of Piave

  • US President Woodrow Wilson agrees to US intervention in Siberia

  • Final phase of great German Spring push, the Second Battle of Marne, begins

  • Former Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, and children, are murdered by the Bolsheviks

  • Allies counterattack against German forces, seizing initiative

  • Allied intervention begins at Vladivosto

  • Haig directs start of successful Amiens offensive, forcing all German troops back to the Hindenburg Line; Ludendorff calls it a "black day" for German army

  • US forces clear the St.-Mihiel salient, during which the greatest air assault of the war is launched by the US

  • Start of British offensive in Palestine, the Battle of Megiddo

  • Battle of the Vardar pits Serb, Czech, Italian, French and British forces against Bulgarian forces

  • Meuse-Argonne offensive opens; the final Franco-American offensive of the war

  • Haig's forces storm the Hindenburg Line, breaking through at several points

    until Oct 17

  • Belgian troops attack at Ypres

    until October 14

  • Bulgaria concludes armistice negotiations

  • Germany and Austria send peace notes to US President Woodrow Wilson requesting an armistice

  • Belgian troops end attack at Ypres

    began on Sept 28

  • Haig's forces storm the Hindenburg Line, finish breaking through at several points

    began Sept 27

  • British advance to the Sambre and Schledt rivers, taking many German prisoners

    ends Nov 11

  • Germany ceases unrestricted submarine warfare

  • Erich Ludendorff resigns

  • Turkey concludes an armistice with the Allies

  • German fleet mutinies at Kiel

  • Trieste falls to the Allies; Austria-Hungary concludes an armistice

  • Germany negotiates an armistice with the Allies in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne

    ends Nov 11

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II flees to Holland

  • German republic is founded

  • Germany armistce negotiations with the Allies in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne end

    begins Nov 7

  • Armistice day; fighting ceases at 11am