Germany warns that neutral vessels in British waters “would be destroyed without it always being possible to warn the crews and passengers.”...

Austria accepted truce terms, including the immediate cessation of hostilities and evacuation on the Italian Coast on November 4. Six days later in Vienna, army aeroplane hangers are burned. Shootings...

A German officer, Werner Horn, is arrested in Maine for a bombing that damages the Saint Croix-Vanceboro Railway Bridge, which connects the U.S. and Canada.

Three days prior, German delegates were escorted through a devastated French countryside to a railway car in the Compiengne Forest, Marshal Foch’s Headquarters and were presented with terms of the...

Ottoman Turkish army disarms and segregates Armenian soldiers into labor battalions fearing Christian Armenians are aiding Orthodox Russians in their fight against Turkey. In 1915, 1,000,000 Armenians...

Two weeks after the armistice, German Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck- considered one of the greatest single leaders in military history- surrenders his force of 175 European and 3,000 African...

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...