Timeline Monday 11 November 1918

Events on Monday 11 November 1918 7

• 1914 – 1918 Start of World War I The Great War Triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, leading to global conflict.
• 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive Largest American military operation of World War I American and French forces launched a massive offensive along the Meuse River and through the Argonne Forest, aiming to cut German rail lines supplying the Western Front. It became the largest and deadliest operation of the war for the American Expeditionary Forces, with over 26,000 US soldiers killed. The offensive continued until the Armistice ended the fighting.
• 1918 The Meuse-Argonne Offensive Argonne, France The largest operation in American military history to that point, involving 1.2 million troops and costing 26,000 American dead in six weeks.
• 1918 Independence Day Restoration of Statehood Poland regained sovereignty following the collapse of the partitioning powers after WWI.
• 1918 Poland regains independence Second Polish Republic founded Poland re-emerged as an independent nation after World War I.
• 1918 Poland regains independence Poland restored as a sovereign state after 123 years of partition Józef Piłsudski assumed military command in Warsaw as Poland reconstituted itself as an independent state after being partitioned among Russia, Prussia, and Austria since the late 18th century. The date is commemorated as Poland's National Independence Day. The newly restored country immediately faced border conflicts with several neighbours.
• 1918 The Armistice Compiègne, France Signed in a railway carriage at 5:10 a.m. and effective at 11 a.m. Around 2,700 men died in the six hours in between, on a front where everyone knew the war was ending at eleven.