WHAT HAPPENED IN 1918.
Look what happened the 1918.

The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost. (17. July 1918)

U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. (21. July 1918)

Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I. (2. August 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)

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

Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist. (13. August 1918)

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany. (13. August 1918)

Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. (17. August 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)

Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive. (29. August 1918)

Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror. (30. August 1918)

Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia. (5. September 1918)

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

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

World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins. (28. September 1918)

World War I, Battle of St. Quentin Canal: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice. (29. September 1918)

World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus. (1. October 1918)

King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne. (3. October 1918)