Allies, including Australian and New Zealand troops, land in Gallipoli, Turkey at Helles and Anzac Cove. The Turkish controlled peninsula of twisting shorelines protects the Dardanelle Straits- a key...

Americans begin their most important battle of the war as part of Marshal Foch’s final offensive on Western Front. On the 26th, U.S. troops, on a twenty-mile front, advance between the Argonne Forest...

In the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans open the assault with a chlorine gas attack, the first successful use of poison gas on the Western Front; more than 10,000 Allied troops are affected, over...

Austria is proclaimed a “Federation” of German-Austrians, Czechs, Ukrainians, and Yugo-Slavs. On the next day, the Czechs seize Prague, renounce Hapsburg rule and Czechoslovakia is declared...

Several thousand women demonstrate for peace before the German Reichstag [Parliament].

German Republic proclaimed as Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates. The next day, the ex-Kaiser and his entourage flee to Holland; they arrive at Eysden, on the frontier, at 7:30 a.m.

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...