1918 Documents

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• Prime Minister Lloyd George on the British War Aims
  </dd>5 January 1918
• President Wilson's Fourteen Points
  </dd>8 January 1918
  </dd>A "program for peace"
• President Wilson's Address to Congress, Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances
  </dd>11 February 1918
• Sir Douglas Haig's Cambrai Despatch
  </dd>20 February 1918
• The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  </dd>3 March 1918
  </dd>Germany's treaty with Russia
• U.S. Railway Control Act
  </dd>21 March 1918
• Letter of Britain's King George Thanking American Troops
  </dd>April 1918
  </dd>(PDF file)
• Sir Douglas Haig's "Backs to the Wall" Order
  </dd>11 April 1918
  </dd>Includes a facsimile copy of the Special Order of the Day
• The Treaty of Bucharest
  </dd>7 May 1918
  </dd>Romania's forced treaty with Germany (later declared void)
• The U.S. Sedition Act
  </dd>16 May 1918
  </dd>Including amendments to the 1917 Espionage Act, which was subsequently repealed in 1921.
• The Allied Appeal for Rapid American Assistance
  </dd>May - June, 1918
• Americans Take Belleau Wood
  </dd>9 - 10 June 1918
• U.S. Participation in the Archangel Expedition
  </dd>17 July 1918
  </dd>As detailed by Secretary of State Robert Lansing
• From the Diary Notes of Oberst Thaer
  [on Ludendorff's Acceptance of Defeat]
  </dd>1 October 1918
  </dd>(German original)
• From the Diary Notes of Oberst Thaer
  [on Ludendorff's Acceptance of Defeat]
  </dd>1 October 1918
  </dd>(English translation)
• The Allies' Conditional Acceptance of the Fourteen Points
  </dd>5 November 1918
  </dd>Following a memorandum of interpretation by Colonel Edward House
  </dd>Emphasizing the concept of a postwar "league of nations"
• Anglo-French Joint Statement of Aims in Syria and Mesopotamia
  </dd>7 November 1918
• Ultimatum by the Social Democrats
  </dd>7 November 1918
• The Allies' Armistice Demands
  </dd>10 November 1918
  </dd>Accepted by Germany the next morning,
  </dd>at 11 a.m. on 11/11/1918
• The New York Times Reports the End of the War
  </dd>9 - 11 November 1918
• Abdication Proclamation of Wilhelm II
  </dd>28 November 1918
• Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches as British Commander-in Chief
  </dd>1916 - 1919
• History of Intelligence (B), British Expeditionary Force in France
  </dd>January 1917 - April 1919

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