03/21-04/05: |
Second
Battle of Somme. Numerous casualties on both sides, amongst
the British and French, and German forces. |
04/09-29: |
Battle
of the Lys. Germans recapture Messines Ridge but are defeated
by Belgian, British, and Canadian troops. |
05/27-06/02: |
Third
Battle of the Aisne. Germans attack the French positions
but Americans clear them out of the woods. The British
line holds and the Germans end their attack. |
06/09-13: |
Battle
of Noyon-Montdidier. Germans continue to threaten Paris,
but the French defense halt their attacks and inflict
heavy losses on the Germans. |
06/15-22: |
Austrians
are driven back by Anglo-French and Italians along the
Piave River line. |
07/15-08/05: |
Second
Battle of the Marne. The last major German offensive on
the Western Front, ending with a French army being crushed,
and the Germans being held back by French, American, British,
and Italian troops. |
07/18-08/03: |
Marne
sector attack by Germans. British, French, American, and
Italian forces hold back the Germans and retake the salient. |
08/08-09/03: |
Battle
of Amiens. "Black Day of the German Army" as
Germans are attacked by Allies, losing all gains on the
Somme. |
09/XX: |
Three
RAF squadrons destroy a Bulgarian force in a narrow pass
in Macedonia. |
09/12: |
Battle
of St. Mihiel. Americans and French attack Germans, driving
them from the salient. |
09/26-11/11: |
Battle
of the River Meuse-Argonne Forest. Americans and French
attack Germans, forcing them back. |
09/27-11/11: |
Battle
of Cambrai-St. Quentin. Germans are driven further back
by the Allies, losing all ground they had gained since
1914. |
09/30: |
Bulgaria
signs an armistice. |
10/17: |
Unrestricted
submarine warfare ends. |
10/24-11/03: |
Italian
and Allied Forces drive back Austro-Hungarians over the
Piave River. |
10/30: |
Turkey
negotiates an armistice. |
11/03: |
Austria-Hungary
signs an armistice. |
11/11: |
Germany
seeks and is granted an armistice, after Kaiser Wilhelm
II abdicates and flees to Holland (neutral territory)
the day before. |
11/25: |
The
remaining forces in German East Africa surrender. |