END OF WORLD WAR –31 FEBRUARY GERMANY ANNOUNCES UNRESTRICTED U-BOAT WARFARE –UNITED STATES RECEIVES ‘ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM’ FROM BRITAIN ALLEGED TO DETAIL PROPOSED GERMAN ALLIANCE WITH MEXICO AGAINST THE UNITED STATES –MARCH – FIRST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION –6 APRIL UNITED STATES DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY –7 NOVEMBER – SECOND REVOLUTION PUTS BOLSHEVIKS IN POWER IN RUSSIA RUSSIA SIGNS TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK WITH GERMANY VLADIMIR LENIN

END OF WORLD WAR –MARCH TO JULY, GERMANY LAUNCHES A SERIES OF MAJOR OFFENCES ON THE WESTERN FRONT –MAY - UNITED STATES FORCES BECOME EFFECTIVE ON WESTERN FRONT –3 AUGUST – BRITAIN & U.S. (SMALL CANADIAN CONTINGENT) LAND AT VLADIVOSTOK –ON VERGE OF REVOLUTION GERMANY NEGOTIATES AN ARMISTICE SET FOR 11 NOVEMBER 1918, BECOMES A REPUBLIC ON 10 NOVEMBER, KAISER WILHELM II ABDICATES KAISER WILHELM

END OF WORLD WAR –10 TO 15 JANUARY - COMMUNIST REVOLT IN BERLIN –18 JANUARY - PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN IN PARIS –JANUARY TO FEBRUARY – LEAGUE OF NATIONS FORMED –28 JUNE – TREATY OF VERSAILLES SIGNED

END OF WORLD WAR 1 AFTERMATH –MORE THAN 60,000 CANADIANS DEAD –FIRST MAJOR MODERN WEDGE DRIVEN BETWEEN FRENCH AND ENGLISH CANADIANS –IN SOME COMMUNITIES AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF YOUNG MEN HAD DIED –IN MUCH OF WESTERN SOCIETY SURVIVORS OF THE WAR RETURNED WITH A CYNICAL AND FATALISTIC ATTITUDE TOWARDS MODERN SOCIETY –TROOPS WAITING IN BRITAIN FOR DE- MOBILIZATION RIOT AFTER RUMOURS THEY ARE TO BE KEPT IN SERVICE TO FIGHT THE BOLSHEVIK ARMY IN RUSSIA –SOCIAL UNREST IS WIDESPREAD AND STRIKES ERUPT ACROSS THE COUNTRY – ESPECIALLY IN WINNIPEG