The Germans are taken by surprise since no artillery barrage precedes the attack. The tanks penetrate the lines by more than 10,000 yards. Ten days later, the Germans counterattack, regaining most...

Less than two months after being declared a “socialist republic”, Lenin’s forces succeed in overthrowing the Kerensky government. The Bolsheviks demand a “just and immediate...

Named for its author Lord Balfour, the declaration expresses the British government’s support of the establishment of “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.

Soldiers of the First Division enter combat on the Western Front under French command. It is less than two weeks later, on Nov. 1, when First American soldiers, members of the 1st Division, are...

Ten suffragists are arrested at the White House for carrying placards demanding the right to vote for women. Four of the demonstrators are sentenced to prison.

Battleship crews protest poor food and living conditions. On September 9, the mutiny is revealed to the Reichstag and two of the mutiny’s leaders are executed days later.

In the first two weeks of battle, British artillery units fire 4,283,550 shells at German lines near the Flemish town of Passchendaele. The campaign ends by Nov. 10.

In Washington, D.C., a blindfolded Secretary of War Newton D. Baker draws the first capsules from a large fishbowl in a lottery for the first American draftees, as prescribed under the Selective...

The King of Great Britain gives up all of his German titles and formal associations with the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and renames his dynasty ‘the House of Windsor.’...

General John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), greets the infantrymen and engineers as they step ashore. “They are sturdy rookies - we shall make great...