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1919
September 12 US forces clear the St.-Mihiel salient, during which the greatest air assault of the war is launched by the US
September 19 Start of British offensive in Palestine, the Battle of Megiddo
September 26 Battle of the Vardar pits Serb, Czech, Italian, French and British forces against Bulgarian forces
September 26 Meuse-Argonne offensive opens; the final Franco-American offensive of the war
September 27 – October 17 Haig’s forces storm the Hindenburg Line, breaking through at several points
September 29 Bulgaria concludes armistice negotiations
September 28 – October 14 Belgian troops attack at Ypres
October 3-4 Germany and Austria send peace notes to US President Woodrow Wilson requesting an armistice
October 17 – November 11 British advance to the Sambre and Schledt rivers, taking many German prisoners
October 21 Germany ceases unrestricted submarine warfare
October 27 Erich Ludendorff resigns
October 30 Turkey concludes an armistice with the Allies
November 3 German fleet mutinies at Kiel
November 3 Trieste falls to the Allies; Austria-Hungary concludes an armistice
November 7–11 Germany negotiates an armistice with the Allies in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at
Compiegne
November 9 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates
November 10 Kaiser Wilhelm II flees to Holland
November 10 German republic is founded
November 11 Armistice day; fighting ceases at 11am
January 10–15 Communist revolt in Berlin
January 18 Start of peace negotiations in Paris
January 25 Peace conference accepts principle of a League of Nations
February 6 German National Assembly meets in Weimar
February 14 Draft covenant of League of Nations completed
May 6 Peace conference disposes of German colonies
May 7 – June 28 Treaty of Versailles drafted and signed
June 21 German High Seas Fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow
July 19 Cenotaph is unveiled in London
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