The World War I Document Archive
1918

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1918 Documents:

• Prime Minister Lloyd George on the British War Aims
  5 January 1918

  President Wilson's Fourteen Points

  8 January 1918

  A "program for peace"

  President Wilson's Address to Congress,
  Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances

  11 February 1918

  Sir Douglas Haig's Cambrai Despatch

  20 February 1918

  The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  3 March 1918

  Germany's treaty with Russia

  U.S. Railway Control Act

  21 March 1918

  Letter of King George Thanking American Troops

  April 1918

  (PDF file)

  Sir Douglas Haig's "Backs to the Wall" Order

  11 April 1918

  Includes a facsimile copy of the "Special Order of the Day"

  The Treaty of Bucharest

  7 May 1918

  Romania's forced treaty with Germany (later declared void)

  The U.S. Sedition Act

  16 May 1918

  Including amendments to the 1917 Espionage Act
      which was subsequently repealed in 1921.

  The Allied Appeal for Rapid American Assistance

  May - June, 1918

  Americans Take Belleau Wood

  9 - 10 June 1918

  U.S. Participation in the Archangel Expedition

  17 July 1918

  As detailed by Secretary of State Robert Lansing

  From the Diary Notes of Oberst Thaer
  [on Ludendorff's Acceptance of Defeat]

  1 October 1918

  (German original)

  From the Diary Notes of Oberst Thaer
  [on Ludendorff's Acceptance of Defeat]

  1 October 1918

  (English translation)

  The Allies' Conditional Acceptance of the Fourteen Points

  5 November 1918

  Following a memorandum of interpretation by Colonel Edward House

  Emphasizing the concept of a postwar "league of nations"

  Anglo-French Joint Statement of Aims in Syria and Mesopotamia

  7 November 1918

  Ultimatum by the Social Democrats

  7 November 1918

  The Allies' Armistice Demands

  10 November 1918

  Accepted by Germany the next morning,

  at 11 a.m. on 11/11/1918

  The New York Times Reports the End of the War

  9 - 11 November 1918

  Abdication Proclamation of Wilhelm II

  28 November 1918

  Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches as British Commander-in-Chief

  1916 - 1919

  History of Intelligence (B), British Expeditionary Force in France

  January 1917 - April 1919