1918 Documents

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• Prime Minister Lloyd George on the British War Aims

5 January 1918

• President Wilson's Fourteen Points

8 January 1918

A "program for peace"

• President Wilson's Address to Congress, Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances

11 February 1918

• Sir Douglas Haig's Cambrai Despatch

20 February 1918

• The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

3 March 1918

Germany's treaty with Russia

• U.S. Railway Control Act

21 March 1918

• Letter of Britain's King George Thanking American Troops

April 1918

(PDF file)

• Sir Douglas Haig's "Backs to the Wall" Order

11 April 1918

Includes a facsimile copy of the Special Order of the Day

• The Treaty of Bucharest

7 May 1918

Romania's forced treaty with Germany (later declared void)

• The U.S. Sedition Act

16 May 1918

Including amendments to the 1917 Espionage Act, which was subsequently repealed in 1921.

• The Allied Appeal for Rapid American Assistance

May - June, 1918

• Americans Take Belleau Wood

9 - 10 June 1918

• U.S. Participation in the Archangel Expedition

17 July 1918

As detailed by Secretary of State Robert Lansing

• From the Diary Notes of Oberst Thaer [on Ludendorff's Acceptance of Defeat]

1 October 1918

(German original)

• From the Diary Notes of Oberst Thaer [on Ludendorff's Acceptance of Defeat]

1 October 1918

(English translation)

• The Allies' Conditional Acceptance of the Fourteen Points

5 November 1918

Following a memorandum of interpretation by Colonel Edward House

Emphasizing the concept of a postwar "league of nations"

• Anglo-French Joint Statement of Aims in Syria and Mesopotamia

7 November 1918

• Ultimatum by the Social Democrats

7 November 1918

• The Allies' Armistice Demands

10 November 1918

Accepted by Germany the next morning, at 11 a.m. on 11/11/1918

• The New York Times Reports the End of the War

9 - 11 November 1918

• Abdication Proclamation of Wilhelm II

28 November 1918

• Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches as British Commander-in Chief

1916 - 1919

• History of Intelligence (B), British Expeditionary Force in France

January 1917 - April 1919

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