WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened July to November 1918

World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins. (26. September 1918)

The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver. (2. August 1918)

World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive). (8. August 1918)

Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I. (13. October 1918)

Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan. (10. September 1918)

Czechoslovakia becomes a republic. (14. November 1918)

World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends. (11. August 1918)

Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (23. November 1918)

World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he is awarded the Medal of Honor. (8. October 1918)

A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established. (28. October 1918)

World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack. (15. July 1918)

Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations. (26. October 1918)

The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed. (6. November 1918)

The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario, and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air. (10. November 1918)

The short-lived Banat Republic is founded. (1. November 1918)

Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence. (11. November 1918)

World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins. (21. August 1918)

Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales — U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil. (27. August 1918)

Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria. (7. November 1918)

Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia. (21. November 1918)

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