Italy finally attacks. Turkey drops out of the war and Austria-Hungary begins to disintegrate. Ludendorff sacked as Germany’s quartermaster-general amidst collapsing army morale and German requests for an armistice.

1/10/1918 The fall of Damascus

2/10/1918 Western Front: in the north Germany retreats, while in the Argonne the “Lost Battalion” gets lost

3/10/1918 Allenby lays down the law to Faisal

3/10/1918 Germany requests an armistice

4/10/1918 Cher Ami, brave pigeon of the Argonne

5/10/1918 Star French aviator Roland Garros shot down

7/10/1918 New states begin to emerge from the ashes of German and Austro-Hungarian defeat

7/10/1918 Haig and Foch scent victory, the Americans finally rescue their Lost Battalion

7/10/1918 Twilight of the Komuch

8/10/1918 As French troops land in Beirut, the Turkish government resigns

9/10/1918 A German king for Finland

9/10/1918 As Canadian troops recover Cambrai, Wilson’s reply to Prince Max’s note arrives in Berlin

10/10/1918 The sinking of the RMS Leinster

12/10/1918 Prince Max replies to Wilson, accepting the Fourteen Points and need to evacuate Allied territory

14/10/1918 Allied gains force a German withdrawal from the Belgian coast

14/10/1918 Wilson demands an end to the U-boat war

16/10/1918 The People’s Manifesto: Emperor Karl’s desperate attempt to reform his empire

17/10/1918 German morale buckles as the Allied advance continues

17/10/1918 Wilson’s note causes consternation in Berlin

18/10/1918 Italy prepares to attack Austria-Hungary

20/10/1918 As a concession to Wilson, Germany calls off the U-boats

20/10/1918 Lansing’s note to Vienna: the writing on the wall for Austria-Hungary

21/10/1918 As Wilson recognises the Czechoslovaks, Austria’s Germans seek their own nation

23/10/1918 With British help, the Italians prepare to cross the Piave

24/10/1918 A developing rupture between Prince Max’s government and Ludendorff’s army

24/10/1918 The German navy prepares for a glorious last battle

24/10/1918 Italy attacks Monte Grappa: more blood spilled for minimal gains

25/10/1918 As the Belgian King returns to Bruges, Allied commanders discuss armistice terms

25/10/1918 Hungarian leaders demand the return of their troops as the Austro-Hungarian army calls for an armistice

26/10/1918 Aleppo falls to the British

26/10/1918 As Allied leaders discuss armistice terms, the Kaiser sacks Ludendorff

27/10/1918 Italian troops surge across the Piave as Hungary moves towards independence

28/10/1918 Boroevic prepares for Austria-Hungary’s last stand

28/10/1918 As his empire disintegrates, Emperor Karl requests an armistice

29/10/1918 Mutiny breaks out in the German fleet

29/10/1918 The Austro-Hungarians retreat to the Italian border

30/10/1918 National revolution in Hungary

30/10/1918 The Armistice of Mudros: Turkey exits the war

30/10/1918 Vittorio Veneto recaptured, Monte Grappa outflanked

31/10/1918 The nationalists take over in Budapest and settle accounts with Count Tisza

31/10/1918 The cold grip of influenza

see also:

Monthly Archive 1918

September 1918

November 1918

@ww1liveblog (Twitter)

images:

Crowds in Prague’s Wenceslas Square as Czechoslovak independence is proclaimed (The World of the Hasburgs – The Day of the Coup: 28 October 1918)

The King of Belgium returns to liberated Bruges (Wikipedia – Battle of Courtrai (1918))

Allied offensives smash Germany’s allies and defeat on the Western Front forces Germany’s leaders to accept that the war is lost. Red terror unleashed in Russia. The second wave of the influenza pandemic.

2/9/1918 Allied successes force a German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line

3/9/1918 As Lenin recovers, the Cheka unleashes Red Terror

6/9/1918 Allied advance slows as the Germans withdraw to the Hindenburg Line

10/9/1918 Kazan: the Red Army pushes back against the Czechoslovak Legion

12/9/1918 St. Mihiel: US troops smash the Germans

14/9/1918 Emperor Karl seeks peace, in vain

15/9/1918 The Vardar offensive: Allied breakthrough against the Bulgarians

15/9/1918 Massacres in Baku as the city falls to the Turks

16/9/1918 The more deadly return of the influenza pandemic

17/9/1918 US victory at St. Mihiel see the Germans shaken and Pershing disappointed at missed opportunities

19/9/1918 Megiddo: Allenby’s breakthrough in Palestine

21/9/1918 Turkish collapse in Palestine

23/9/1918 Bulgaria’s Balkan disaster

23/9/1918 Allenby decides to have another crack at Amman

25/9/1918 As his men take Amman, Allenby prepares to march on Damascus

26/9/1918 The forest of death: the Americans attack into the Argonne

27/9/1918 Canadian troops storm the Canal du Nord, prepare to march on Cambrai

28/9/1918 Fifth Ypres: another drubbing for the Germans

28/9/1918 Ludendorff cracks and demands an immediate armistice

29/9/1918 Bulgaria throws in the towel

29/9/1918 Deadlock in the Argonne

29/9/1918 St. Quentin Canal: piercing the Hindenburg Line

29/9/1918 Germany’s “Revolution from Above”

see also:

Monthly Archive 1918

August 1918

@ww1liveblog (Twitter)

World War 1 Live Blog (Facebook)
images:

Wounded German prisoners and their American captors at St. Mihiel (The Zine, Diplomatic Pouch — The Hundred Last Days, Part 2: September 1918)

map (Mental Floss WWI Centennial: Central Powers In Collapse)