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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

  <a href="1918/king.pdf">Letter of King George Thanking American Troops</a>

  April 1918

  (PDF file) <p>

  <a href="http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/backstothewall.htm"> Sir Douglas Haig's "Backs to the Wall" Order</a>

  11 April 1918

  Includes a facsimile copy of the "<a href="http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/graphics/backstothewall.jpg">Special Order of the Day</a>" <p>

  <a href="http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/bucharest1918.htm">The Treaty of Bucharest</a>

  7 May 1918

  Romania's forced treaty with Germany (later declared void)</a> <p>

  <a href="1918/usspy.html">The U.S. Sedition Act</a>

  16 May 1918

  Including amendments to the <a href="http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/espionageact.htm">1917 Espionage Act</a>
      which was subsequently repealed in 1921. <p>

  <a href="1918/amicome.html">The Allied Appeal for Rapid American Assistance</a>

  May - June, 1918 <p>

  <a href="1918/belleau.html">Americans Take Belleau Wood</a>

  9 - 10 June 1918 <p>

  <a href="1918/archangl.html">U.S. Participation in the Archangel Expedition</a>

  17 July 1918

  As <a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/doc32.htm">detailed by Secretary of State Robert Lansing</a> <p>

  <a href="http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ohherde/thaer.htm">From the Diary Notes of Oberst Thaer
  [on Ludendorff's Acceptance of Defeat]</a>

  1 October 1918

  (German original)

  <a href="1918/thaereng.html">From the Diary Notes of Oberst Thaer
  [on Ludendorff's Acceptance of Defeat]</a>

  1 October 1918

  (English translation) <p>

  <a href="1918/allies14.html">The Allies' Conditional Acceptance of the Fourteen Points</a>

  5 November 1918

  Following a <a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/doc31.htm">memorandum of interpretation</a> by Colonel Edward House

  Emphasizing the concept of a postwar "league of nations" <p>

  <a href="1918/syria.html">Anglo-French Joint Statement of Aims in Syria and Mesopotamia</a>

  7 November 1918 <p>

  <a href="1918/socdemult.html">Ultimatum by the Social Democrats</a>

  7 November 1918 <p>

  <a href="1918/prearmistice.html">The Allies' Armistice Demands</a>

  10 November 1918

  Accepted by Germany the next morning,

  at 11 a.m. on 11/11/1918 <p>

  <a href="1918/nytend.html">The New York Times Reports the End of the War</a>

  9 - 11 November 1918 <p>

  <a href="1918/willyabd.html"> Abdication Proclamation of Wilhelm II</a>

  28 November 1918 <p>

  <a href="http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/haig_despatches.htm"> Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches as British Commander-in-Chief</a>

  1916 - 1919 <p>

  <a href="1917/secret.html">History of Intelligence (B), British Expeditionary Force in France</a>

  January 1917 - April 1919 </ul>

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