Review of Year of Peace After Four Years of War
A compact retrospective by Donald F. Biggs detailing 1918 as the year world peace was secured after a four year global conflict. It covers revolutions and nation formation, the Allied victory, key offensives from Russia to France, U.S. war mobilization, and political changes shaping postwar Europe and Asia. The piece highlights the abdication of monarchs, the German armistice, and emerging republics including Czecho Slovaakia and Poland.
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Donald F. Biggs
America
Austria-Hungary
German
Russia
Evar
West Front
Wilson
von Hertling
Congress
Levine
Foren
Trotzky
Erbcan
France
Toul ¢Eir
I A
Isheviki
Germany
Reval
Russianaval
Metrograd
Lenine
Llandovery Castle
Canada
England
United States
Siberia
Count von Mirbach
Moscow
Murman
Foch
Picardy
Haig
Montdidier Salient
McOn
Eae
Allied War Council
Versailles
Grand Pre
Meuse
Marshal Foch
Aisne
Sedan
Metz
Kaiser
Social Democrats
Herr Ebert
Holland
Rhine
Paris
Austria
Charles of Austria
Marshal von Hindenburg
Herr Liebknecht
Lansing
Col. E. M. House
Henry White
Tasker H. Bliss
Supreme War Council
Brest
Europe
Great Britain
Italy
Prague
Poland
Republic of China
Chile
Tapan
Arica
Sidonia Paes
Portugal
Lisbon
Canto Y. Castro
Mannerheim
Finland
Disasters of 1918 Roiled Lands and Seas Killing Many
A year end overview lists 1918 disasters from fires and rail accidents to U boat torpedoes. It cites 52 children killed in a Montreal convent fire on February 14, 92 in a blizzard wreck near Cape Race on February 24, 66 lives lost in the Savannah Gilmore Athens collision May 1, and 63 deaths from the Gary Indiana circus train wreck June 22 among numerous other catastrophes worldwide. It notes the ocean tolls include the Otranto sinking October 6 with 450 dead and the Leinster torpedoing October 10 with 400 dead, plus a Morgan New Mexico shell plant explosion killing 94 and a Porto Rico earthquake killing 150. The report closes with the mystery of the navy collier Grootapa and a large 1918 death toll from forest fires and a Alaska wreck Princess Sophia.
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Montreal
Canada
Florizel
St. Johns
N. F
New York
Cape Race
Norman
Okla
Gil
Athens
Aetna Chemik Phant
Pittsburgh
Gary
Ind
Sioux City
England
Syracuse
N. Y
Minois River
Nashville
Minnesota
Tyler and
Connors
United States
Otranto
Alaskan
Brooklyn
Belgium
Matitore
Aet
United States Navy
Grotapa
West Indies
Labor Unrest Calmed as War Demands Rise
Early in the year shipyard workers sparked strikes in five yards, threatening wartime mobilization. President Wilson urged cooperation, the strike ended, and a national labor board was formed with Taft and Walsh to mediate disputes during the war.
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Senate
House
Congress
Wilson
Laber
Labor Adjustment Board
William L. Hutcheson
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
National Board of Labor
William H. Taft
Frank P. Walsh
Notable Death Toll Marked in 1918 Year
A necrology lists prominent figures who died in 1918 including United States Senators James H. Brady William Hughes and Olle M James notable leaders Major A P Gardner ex congressman parliamentarians Cardinal John M Marley and Edmond Rostand among others with deaths in January to December across the United States Britain Ireland and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
James H. Brady
Idaho
Maj. A. P. Gardner
Massachusetts
William Hughes
New Jersey
John L. Sullivan
West Abington
Mass
Abdul Harold
Turkey
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
America
John Redmond
London
George von L. Meyer
Boston
R. F. Browsseard
Louisiana
William Joel Stone
Missouri
James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
Paris
Ramon M. Valdez
Panama
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Indianapolis
Mohammed V
Viscount Rhondda
Benjamin R. Tillman
South Carolina
Gustav Kobbe
Max Rosenthal
Philadelphia
Anna Heid
New York
Jacob H. Gallinger
Gen. H. ©. King
R. van Gise
University of Wisconsin
Joseph F. Smith
Mormon Church
Edmond Rostand
McClure
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Flanders
Channel
Somme
River Lys
Messines
Ypres
Hazebrouck
Zeebrugge
Marne
Chemin-des- Dames
Soissons
Vesle
Chateau-Thierry
Verneuil
Reims
Cantigny
United
Chateau- Thierry
Noyon
Asiago
Crown Prince
Sergy
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Lassigny
Bapaume
Peronne
Roye
Hindenburg
Lys Salient
Pershing
St. Mihiel Salient
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Holy Land
St. Quentin
Washington
Malinoff
Bulgaria
Teutons
Torkey
Prince Max
Argonne Forest
Chemin Des Dames
Laon
Argonne
Albert
Ostend
Bruges
Lille
Max
Fulure
Ales
Chicago
William G. McAdoo
the Treasury
Carter Glass
Virginia
Mr. McAdoo
Stephens
California
Thomas J
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