Signing of the armistice with Germany on 11 November in a railroad carriage at Compiègne. Germany begins negotiations for an armistice with the Allies in Ferdinand Foch’s railway carriage headquarters at Compiègne.Īt the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, in Rethondes (Compiègne Forest) Germany signs an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One.
Germany ceases its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.Īfter refusing orders to put to sea in a bid to launch a final suicide attack on the British Royal Navy, sailors of the German Navy mutiny at the port of Kiel.Īfter being forced back by Allied troops, Turkey requests an armistice.įollowing the fall of Trieste, Austro-Hungary concludes an armistice with the Allies. The Allies have now taken control of almost all of German-occupied France and part of Belgium. Germany asks the Allies for an armistice. It is during this battle that Corporal (later Sergeant) Alvin York makes his famous capture of 132 German prisoners. This will be the last Franco-American campaign of the war. Unlike most other offences of World War I, Allenby’s campaigns had succeeded with relatively little cost. The battle would prove to be the final victory of British General Edmund Allenby’s conquest of Palestine. The British begin an offensive against Turkish forces in Palestine, the Battle of Megiddo. Bulgaria’s King Ferdinand would abdicate shortly afterwards. The Vardar Offensive would last little over a week with Bulgaria eventually signing an armistice and exiting the war. Start of an Allied offensive against Bulgarian forces. Erich Ludendorff calls it “the black day of the German Army.” Allied armoured divisions smash through the once impregnable German trenches. Start of the Battle of Amiens, the opening phase of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive, that will ultimately lead to the end of World War I. The Allies counterattack against German forces, seizing the initiative on the Western Front. The former Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, and children, are murdered by the Bolsheviks.
The heavy toll on the German Army from the previous Spring Offences is beginning to show, with depleted and exhausted troops. The final phase of the great German spring push, the Second Battle of Marne begins. forces, some 4,000 troops, are victorious in their first major action of the war at the Battle of Cantigny. The main objective of the Germans is to split French and British forces in an attempt to gain a quick victory before American troops are deployed in greater numbers on the battlefields of Europe. The Third German Spring Offensive, Third Battle of the Aisne, begins in the French sector along Chemin des Dames. The raid is only a partial military success but an important propaganda victory for the Allies. The port is an important base for German U-boats. The Zeebrugge Raid, an attempt by the British Royal Navy to block the Belgium port of Bruges-Zeebrugge. The capture of the Channel supply ports at Calais, Dunkirk and Boulogne could choke the British into defeat. The front line Portuguese defenders are quickly overrun by overwhelming numbers of German troops. Germany launches a second Spring Offensive, the Battle of the Lys, in the British sector of Armentieres. The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service are merged to form the Royal Air Force. The French Marshal Ferdinand Foch is appointed Supreme Allied Commander on the Western Front. Germany launches the Ludendorff (or first Spring) Offensive against the British on the Somme. With 50 divisions now freed by the surrender of Russia, Germany realises that its only chance of victory is to defeat the Allies quickly before the huge human and industrial resources of America are deployed. Russia also cedes lands including Poland, Ukraine and Finland, and cash payments are made to release Russian prisoners. The humiliating terms of the treaty effectively surrenders one third of Russia’s population, half of her industry and 90% of her coal mines. The treaty marks Russia’s final withdrawal from World War I. 3 MarchĪ peace treaty is signed between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey) at Brest-Litovsk. Important events of 1918 during the fifth and final year of the First World War, including the appointment of French Marshal Ferdinand Foch as Supreme Allied Commander.
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