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| 1918 May |
| | | Women are enlisted in Britain's air force, in the newly formed WRAF (Women's Royal Air Force) | |
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| 1918 May |
| | | US troops are by now fighting in large numbers on the western front | |
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| 1918 |
| | | from June - Faisal and T.E. Lawrence pin down a Turkish army in a campaign of guerrilla warfare | |
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| 1918 |
| | | Russia's peasants, victims of White and Red Terror, suffer atrocities from both sides in the civil war | |
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| 1918 |
| | | Civil war enables the Bolsheviks to impose a rigid system of state control on the Russian economy, through War Communism and Food Brigades | |
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| 1918 July 8 |
| | | Hermann Goering, a fighter ace who has shot down 22 Allied aircraft by the end of the war, becomes commander of the Richthofen Squadron | |
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| 1918 July 17 |
| | | Tsar Nicholas II and his wife and children are murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg | |
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| 1918 July 18 |
| | | The Allies hold the Germans on the Marne and begin a successful counterattack with tanks | |
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| 1918 August |
| | | A world-wide pandemic of influenza breaks out, and within the space of a year kills 30 million people | |
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| 1918 August 4 |
| | | Adolf Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross, First Class, a decoration rarely given to a corporal | |
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| 1918 September |
| | | The Allies, with Serb troops in the vanguard, press north from Salonika into Serbia | |
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| 1918 September 29 |
| | | The Bulgarians, driven from Serbia, sign an armistice with the Allies | |
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| 1918 October 1 |
| | | After a victory at the historic battle site of Megiddo, Allenby captures the city of Damascus | |
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| 1918 October 4 |
| | | The Kaiser appoints a new chancellor, Prince Max von Baden, to negotiate an end to the war | |
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| 1918 October 5 |
| | | The new German chancellor, Prince Max of Baden, sends a message to President Wilson requesting an immediate armistice | |
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| 1918 October 5 |
| | | The British, under Douglas Haig, break through Germany's heavily defended Hindenburg Line | |
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| 1918 October 30 |
| | | An armistice is signed between Turkey and the Allies on the warship Agamemnon in the Greek port of Mudros | |
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| 1918 October 30 |
| | | A mutiny in Germany's fleet in Kiel sparks uprisings in several German cities | |
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| 1918 November 7 |
| | | Austria-Hungary signs a separate armistice with the Allied powers, in a villa near Padua, without waiting for the Germans | |
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| 1918 November 8 |
| | | The Allied commander-in chief, Marshal Foch, meets a German delegation in a railway carriage in the forest of Compiègne to discuss an armistice | |
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| 1918 November 9 |
| | | Friedrich Ebert, leader of the Social Democrats, becomes the first chancellor of the newly proclaimed German republic | |
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| 1918 November 9 |
| | | The Spartacus League proclaims a rival German republic on soviet lines | |
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