1918 - The Year of Breakthroughs (2018)

Machinations In The British High Command - Week 180
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January 4, 2018 • 9m

1918 starts with machinations in the British High Command since Prime Minister Lloyd George is holding back troops and generally w...Read more

Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points - Week 181
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January 11, 2018 • 10m

In the first full week of 1918, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson outlines his points for peace. In the Caucasus, the increasing insta...Read more

Assassination Attempt on Lenin - Chaos in Romania - Week 182
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January 18, 2018 • 10m

This week in Russia, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin was almost killed by sharpshooters in Petrograd and the Constituent Assembly ...Read more

Civil War in Finland and Ukraine - Week 183
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January 25, 2018 • 10m

This week in the Great War, two more wars start - the Finnish Civil War and the Ukrainian War of Independence. Meanwhile, David Ll...Read more

Strikes and Mutiny - Week 184
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February 1, 2018 • 10m

Public opinion is turning against the war for the Central Powers but not only that, mutinies are also happening more frequently. W...Read more

Austro-Hungarian House of Cards - Week 185
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February 8, 2018 • 10m

The situation for Austria-Hungary is dire, even after the success in Italy and the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk. Strikes an...Read more

No War, No Peace – Trotsky's Gamble - Week 186
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February 15, 2018 • 10m

The negotiations between the Bolsheviks, the German High Command and Austria-Hungary reach a new low this week 100 years ago. Leon...Read more

Operation Faustschlag - Germany Advances In The East Again - Week 187
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February 22, 2018

Germany has had enough with the stalling tactics by the Bolsheviks and is unleashing its military might on the Eastern Front again...Read more

Ludendorff's Window Of Opportunity - Week 188
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March 1, 2018

German victory in the East, chaos in the British High Command, stable fronts in the Balkans and Italy, the US still not in full st...Read more

Peace In The East - The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - Week 189
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March 8, 2018 • 10m

Germany and the Russian Bolshevik Government sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending hostilities on the Eastern Front. Previously ...Read more

Allied Unified Command On The Horizon - Week 190
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March 15, 2018 • 10m

While Germany is occupying a territory from the North Sea to the Black Sea and planning it's huge spring offensive, the Allies are...Read more

Kaiserschlacht - German Spring Offensive 1918 - Week 191
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March 22, 2018 • 10m

It was all or nothing for the German Army under General Erich Ludendorff now: They unleashed the biggest offensive of the entire w...Read more

Backs To The Wall - All Eyes On Amiens - Week 192
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March 29, 2018 • 10m

The German Operation Michael continues this week and after some uncertainty, the Germans put their eyes on Amiens. The city is a v...Read more

Operation Michael Runs Out Of Breath - Week 193
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April 5, 2018 • 10m

Two weeks after the initial success of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael looses pace and direction. The German supply...Read more

The Battle of La Lys - Operation Georgette - Week 194
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April 12, 2018 • 10m

A year after the US entry into the war, the German Spring Offensive 1918 continues with operations Archangel and Georgette. The Po...Read more

Knocking Out The Hejaz Railway - Week 195
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April 19, 2018 • 10m

While the Germans are still advancing in Flanders (Operation Georgette), the other fronts are not always quiet. In Palestine, the ...Read more

The First Tank-on-Tank Battle in History - The Zeebrugge Raid - Week 196
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April 26, 2018 • 10m

At Villers-Bretonneux, German and British tanks clash marking the first tank-on-tank battle in history. In the same week, the most...Read more

Pershing Under Pressure - The End Of La Lys - Week 197
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May 3, 2018 • 10m

Even though the German spring offensive is not able to gain any ground in Flanders, the allied casualties are mounting. This incre...Read more

The Ostende Raid - Peace of Bucharest - Week 198
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May 10, 2018 • 10m

Even though the first raid on Ostende and the Raid on Zeebrugge were not entirely succesfull, the Royal Navy is still determined t...Read more

Rebellion - Week 199
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May 17, 2018 • 10m

The summer of 1918 saw many ethnic and political groups within the warring empires to openly rebel. The Austro-Hungarian Army saw ...Read more

Bombs Away - German Thirst For Caucasian Oil - Week 200
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May 24, 2018 • 10m

In the 200th week of the war, the total nature of modern warfare is truly showing its face. The warring nations escalate their bom...Read more

50 Miles To Paris - Third Battle Of The Aisne - Week 201
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May 31, 2018 • 10m

The German spring offensive has lost some traction over the past few weeks but the Allies are still under pressure. With Operation...Read more

The Battle of Belleau Wood Begins - Week 202
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June 7, 2018 • 10m

The German Army is still threatening Paris and the situation for the Allies looks dire. Reluctantly, General Pershing agrees to pu...Read more

The French Counter Attack At Matz - Week 203
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June 14, 2018 • 10m

The French have cracked the German radio code on the Western Front and use their advantage for a counterattack at Matz. The alread...Read more

Second Battle of the Piave River - Week 204
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June 21, 2018 • 10m

Even though Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal Svetozar Boroević von Bojna warns against, the Austro-Hungarian Army goes on the offens...Read more

The Run For The Baku Oil Fields - Week 205
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June 28, 2018 • 10m

While the Ottoman Army of Islam is marching on Baku and the Caspian Sea, multiple other players are trying to stake their claim of...Read more

The First Modern Battle - The Battle of Hamel - Week 206
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July 5, 2018 • 10m

The Battle of Hamel is considered as the first modern battle. Masterminded by Australian general John Monash, it included meticulo...Read more

The Gardeners Of Salonica Prepare A New Offensive - Week 207
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July 12, 2018 • 10m

The Macedonian Front has been quite since the recapture of Monastir except for some minor battles like at Skra. But the five natio...Read more

2nd Battle Of The Marne - Turning Point On The Western Front - Week 208
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July 19, 2018 • 10m

The German Army launches an diversionary attack from the Rheims-Soisson salient and increases the pressure on Paris. But the Allie...Read more

Ludendorff's Last Swing - Week 209
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July 26, 2018 • 10m

All of Germany's recent offensives have been building up to Operation Hagen: An offensive in Flanders that was to divide the Allie...Read more

Four Years of War - Week 210
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August 2, 2018 • 10m

As the war turns 4 years old, there is still no end in sight. From the Western Front to the Caucasus and the Middle East; in every...Read more

The Black Day Of The German Army - The Battle of Amiens - Week 211
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August 9, 2018 • 10m

Ludendorff and his generals didn't think the Allies had it in them, but this week they attack with the might off several hundred t...Read more

A Resounding Victory - German Morale Plummets - Week 212
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August 16, 2018 • 10m

As the Battle of Amiens is coming to an end, the Germans are desperately trying to stem the Allied advance and fortify new positio...Read more

Over By Christmas? - Growing Allied Confidence - Week 213
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August 23, 2018 • 10m

With the recent "Black Day of the German Army" and the success of the new strategy of Allied attacks along the Western Front and w...Read more

The American First Army Gears Up - Germany Retreats - Week 214
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August 30, 2018 • 10m

As the German Army withdraws along the Western Front, the Entente prepares for ever more offensives. This includes the newly found...Read more

Red Terror in Soviet Russia - Week 215
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September 6, 2018 • 10m

After an almost successful attempt on Lenin's live, the Tscheka under Felix Dzerzhinsky responds with a terror campaign to consoli...Read more

The Battle of Saint-Mihiel - Week 216
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September 13, 2018 • 10m

The American First Army joins the fray on the Western Front with the Battle of Saint-Mihiel. All along the Western Front, the Alli...Read more

Allied Breakthroughs In Palestine And Macedonia - Week 217
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September 20, 2018 • 10m

In a turbulent week of the First World War, the Allies break through at the Macedonian Front during the Battle of Vadar and in Pal...Read more

The Meuse-Argonne Offensive - Bulgarian Collapse - Week 218
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September 27, 2018 • 10m

This week, the biggest American military operation in history kicks off with 1.2 million American soldiers trying to take the Krim...Read more

Germany's Reckoning - Bulgarian Armistice - Week 219
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October 4, 2018 • 10m

While Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonika and effectively exits the war as the first of the Central Powers, the Hindenburg Li...Read more

The Hindenburg Line Breaks - The Lost Battalion Returns - Week 220
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October 11, 2018 • 10m

The Hindenburg Line or Siegfriedstellung is the backbone of the German defenses on the Western Front and this week 100 years ago, ...Read more

The Battle of the Selle - Ludendorff Resigns - Week 221
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October 18, 2018 • 10m

As the Germans are retreating further and further during the Battle of the Selle, Erich Ludendorff – the German Quartermaster Gene...Read more

Italy Attacks - The Battle of Vittorio Veneto - Week 222
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October 25, 2018 • 10m

After the Battle of the Piave, the Italian front had been relatively quiet and stable. But just as unrest and instablity spread th...Read more

Austria-Hungary Disintegrates - The Ottoman Empire Leaves the War - Week 223
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November 1, 2018 • 10m

The Ottoman Empire has been on the retreat in the Middle East since the renewed British offensive in September and now, as the all...Read more

Revolution in Germany - Armistice in Austria - Week 224
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November 8, 2018 • 10m

Unrest within the German Empire is spreading, resentment against the war, the hunger and the elites is turning into revolutionary ...Read more

Armistice - But Peace? - Week 225
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November 15, 2018 • 13m

On November 11 1918, the German delegation and the Allies reach an agreement for an armistice. At the 11th hour the guns go silent...Read more