The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes is founded with a parliamentary government.  In 1929, King Alexander I changed the name of the state to Yugoslavia - land of the southern Slavs. ...

The “Watch on the Rhine” is on. U.S. soldiers occupy the middle Rhine, with the French to the South, and Belgians and British to the north. The headquarters of the 1st Division on 4 December reported...

Each citizen and neutral foreign national is issued a bread card for an initial daily quota of 225 grams (about 8 ounces).

The sound of Christmas carols across No Man’s Land encourages troops from both sides to exchange greetings. The truce is spontaneous and was experienced by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of...

Wilson receives an enthusiastic reception from the people of Paris; 10 days later he leaves for London to meet with British officials.

Held by the Germans since 1898, Tsingtao is a lightly garrisoned port city on the Yellow Sea.  The Germans surrender on November 6.

Diplomats in top hats and long coats converge along the Quai d’Orsay from most of the Allied nations and the city is crowded with French soldiers wanting to be demobilized.

As the armies tried to out flank each other, they extended their lines to the English Channel and began trench warfare. Ypres, a Belgian city and communications hub, was essential to both sides. In...

The Preamble states that the League will exist to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security through specific rules of conduct among the world’s governments.

German invasion of France is stopped in the First Battle of the Marne as German troops are forced to the north side of the Marne River, causing the the Schlieffen Plan to fail.