Free World War One: History in an Hour by Rupert Colley

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    31 January : Germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare
    24 February : British forces recapture Kut
    8 March : First Russian Revolution
    11 March : British enter Baghdad
    15 March : Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, abdicates
    6 April : United States declares war on Germany
    9 April : Start of the Nivelle Offensive; Battle of Vimy Ridge begins
    5 May : Philippe Pétain replaces Nivelle as French commander in chief
    27 May : Beginning of the French Mutiny
    7 June : British capture the Messines Ridge
    25 June : First US troops arrive in France
    1 July : Beginning of the Kerensky Offensive
    17 July : British Royal Family changes name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor
    31 July : Third Battle of Ypres (also known as Passchendaele) begins
    3 September : German forces capture Riga
    15 October : Execution of Mata Hari
    24 October : Austrian–Hungarians defeat Italians at the Battle of Caporetto
    2 November : Balfour Declaration proposes settlement of Jews within Palestine
    7 November : The Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian provisional government
    19 November : Clemenceau appointed French prime minister
    20 November : Battle of Cambrai
    11 December : British capture Jerusalem
    16 December : Russia and Germany sign armistice
    1918
     
    8 January : US President, Woodrow Wilson, presents his Fourteen Points
    3 March : Russia and Germany sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
    21 March : Germany launches the Spring Offensive
    26 March : French general, Ferdinand Foch, is elevated to ‘Allied Supreme Commander of the Western Front’
    1 April : Royal Air Force is founded
    12 April : Haig issues his ‘Back to the Walls’ directive
    21 April : German flying ace, Baron Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron), is shot down and killed
    1 June : Battle of Belleau Wood begins
    15 June : Italians halt Austrians at the Battle of River Piave
    15 July : The Second Battle of the Marne begins
    17 July : Tsar Nicholas II and family are executed
    8 August : Start of the Allies’ Hundred Days Offensive
    27 September : British breach the Hindenburg line
    29 September : Bulgaria surrenders
    1 October : British capture Damascus
    3 October : Prince Maximilian of Baden appointed Chancellor of Germany
    24 October : Austrian–Hungarian army destroyed by Italians at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto
    26 October : Ludendorff dismissed
    28 October : Czechoslovakia declares independence from the Habsburg Empire
    29 October : Kiel mutiny; Foundation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, renamed Yugoslavia in 1929
    30 October : Turkey signs armistice
    31 October Hungary declares independence from the Habsburg Empire
    3 November : Austria and Italy sign armistice
    9 November : German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, abdicates and flees Germany
    11 November : Germany signs armistice. Fighting ceases at 11 a.m.
    1919
     
    18 January : Paris Peace Conference opens
    6 February : Weimar Republic founded
    28 June : The Treaty of Versailles officially ends the First World War

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