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Lloyd George, fighting the British general election as head of a coalition, devastates the Liberal opposition
Supporters of the old regime within the Russian army prepare to use force against the new Bolshevik regime
President Woodrow Wilson formulates fourteen detailed proposals as a basis for world peace once the conflict has ended
Lenin dissolves the elected assembly in Petrograd to establish a one-party Soviet state
Lavr Kornilov leads the heroic Ice March which boosts the morale of the White Russians
The Bolsheviks, now in power, change their name to the more resounding Russian Communist Party
At Brest-Litovsk Lenin signs a peace treaty with Germany and Austria, ceding vast territories and valuable resources
Lenin moves the capital of Russia from Petrograd back to Moscow
Trotsky, given the task of creating an army for the Bolsheviks, conscripts peasants from the villages
The German air ace Baron von Richthofen is finally shot down, after himself destroying 80 Allied planes
Women are enlisted in Britain's air force, in the newly formed WRAF (Women's Royal Air Force)
US troops are by now fighting in large numbers on the western front
from June - Faisal and T.E. Lawrence pin down a Turkish army in a campaign of guerrilla warfare
Russia's peasants, victims of White and Red Terror, suffer atrocities from both sides in the civil war
Civil war enables the Bolsheviks to impose a rigid system of state control on the Russian economy, through War Communism and Food Brigades
Hermann Goering, a fighter ace who has shot down 22 Allied aircraft by the end of the war, becomes commander of the Richthofen Squadron
Tsar Nicholas II and his wife and children are murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg
The Allies hold the Germans on the Marne and begin a successful counterattack with tanks
A world-wide pandemic of influenza breaks out, and within the space of a year kills 30 million people
Adolf Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross, First Class, a decoration rarely given to a corporal
The Allies, with Serb troops in the vanguard, press north from Salonika into Serbia
The Bulgarians, driven from Serbia, sign an armistice with the Allies
After a victory at the historic battle site of Megiddo, Allenby captures the city of Damascus
The Kaiser appoints a new chancellor, Prince Max von Baden, to negotiate an end to the war
The new German chancellor, Prince Max of Baden, sends a message to President Wilson requesting an immediate armistice
