The following events occurred in November 1918:
Painting depicting the signing of the armistice. Behind the table, from right to left, General Chief of Staff Maxime Weygand, Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch (standing) and Royal Navy Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss and fourth from the left, Royal Navy Captain Jack Marriott. In the foreground, Matthias Erzberger, representing the new German government, Major-General Detlof von Winterfeldt (with helmet) of the Imperial German Army, Alfred von Oberndorff, a diplomat at the Foreign Ministry,
Wilhelm II, German Emperor, abdicates his throne and flees to the Netherlands.
Dmytro Vitovsky (middle) proclaims Lemberg the capital of West Ukrainian People's Republic, but ethnic Polish resist and ignite the Polish–Ukrainian War.
The following events occurred in May 1918:
British troops hold the southern bank of the Aisne River during the first day of the Third Battle of the Aisne.
The memorial dedicated to the Armenian victory against the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Sardarabad in Armenia.
Victims of the Vyborg massacre in Finland.
Irish nationalist leader John Dillon speaks from a platform at an anti-conscription rally in County Roscommon, Ireland.