WHAT HAPPENED IN 1918.
Look what happened the 1918.

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic. (9. 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)

World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919. (11. November 1918)

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

Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power. (11. November 1918)

Austria becomes a republic. (12. November 1918)

Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. (13. November 1918)

Czechoslovakia becomes a republic. (14. November 1918)

Latvia declares its independence from Russia. (18. 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)

A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles. (21. November 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)

Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia. (25. November 1918)

The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia. (26. November 1918)

Bukovina votes for union with the Kingdom of Romania. (28. November 1918)

Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union. (1. December 1918)

The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom. (1. December 1918)

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. (1. December 1918)

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. (4. December 1918)

The Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time. (12. December 1918)