* 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.

* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

* 1918 – World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines ( Hundred Days Offensive ).

* 1857 – Albert Ballin, German businessman ( d. 1918 )

* 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.

The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.

* 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1850 )

* 1918 – Erich Löwenhardt, German pilot ( b. 1897 )

* 1918 – The Battle of Ambos Nogales takes place between U. S. forces and Mexican Carrancistas aided by German military advisors.

* 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as " The Red Baron ", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.

* 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot ( b. 1892 )

* 1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.

* 1897 – Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I ( d. 1918 )

First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( 1701 – 1918 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ) and the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ).

His successor, Frederick II Irontooth, established Berlin as capital of the margraviate, and subsequent members of the Hohenzollern family ruled until 1918 in Berlin, first as electors of Brandenburg, then as kings of Prussia, and eventually as German emperors.

While previously held elsewhere within or near the capital city, since 1918 it has been held on the Champs-Élysées, with the evident agreement of the Allies as represented in the Versailles Peace Conference, and with the exception of the period of German occupation from 1940 to 1944.

Biological sabotage – in the form of anthrax and glanders — was undertaken on behalf of the Imperial German government during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), with indifferent results.

It was not until the German Army had been forced to retreat in the Hundred Days Offensive of 1918, that cavalry were again able to operate in their intended role.

The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.

Advocates denounced the German government leaders who signed the Armistice on November 11, 1918, as the " November Criminals ".

Scholars inside and outside Germany unanimously reject the notion, pointing out the German army was out of reserves and was being overwhelmed in late 1918.

These theories were given credence by the fact that when Germany surrendered in November 1918, its armies were still in French and Belgian territory, Berlin remained 450 miles from the nearest front, and the German armies retired from the field of battle in good order.

From 1915 to 1918, Berg served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and during a period of leave in 1917 he accelerated work on his first opera, Wozzeck.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

Allenby's force, now including Indian Army units which replaced a number of British units sent to the Western Front, captured the southern Jordan Valley in 1918 and carried out two major, but unsuccessful attacks to Amman and Es Salt and occupied part of the Jordan Valley, during preparations for his final successful assault in September at the Battle of Megiddo.

On December 9, 1918, the collegiate ( or presidium ) of VCheKa had decided to form a military section, headed by M. S. Kedrov, to combat counterrevolution in the Army.

The Red Terror, implemented by Dzerzhinsky on September 5, 1918, was vividly described by the Red Army journal Krasnaya Gazeta:

In 1918, the Army adopted and allotted the serial number system, and name and serial numbers were ordered stamped on the identification tags of all enlisted troops.

Throughout his career, he railed against the " November criminals " of 1918, who had stabbed the German Army in the back.

" Stabbed at the Front: After 1918 the Myth Was Created That the German Army Only Lost the War Because It Had Been ' Stabbed in the Back ' by Defeatists and Revolutionaries on the Home Front.

Because the Army Distinguished Service Medal is principally awarded to general officers, a list of notable recipients would include nearly every general and admiral since 1918, many of whom received multiple awards, as well as a few civilians and sergeants major prominent for their contributions to national defense.

* 1918 – First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov.

White Guard ( Finland ) | White Guards were appointed the White Army of Finland on 25 January 1918.

The White Army lost 700 – 900 men, including 50 Jägers, the highest number of deaths the former Jäger battalion suffered in a single battle of the 1918 war.

As the German army seized Helsinki, the White Army shifted its military focus to Viipuri, taking it on 29 April 1918 with a major attack of 18, 500 men, against 15, 000 Red troopers.

The German Empire intervened in the Finnish Civil War on the side of the White Army in March 1918.

He halfheartedly enrolled in the City College of New York, where he entered the Students Army Training Corps in October 1918.

During the Great War, the Italian Royal Army increased in size from 15, 000 men in 1914 to 160, 000 men in 1918, with 5 million recruits in total entering service during the war.

* 1918 – Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.

* 1918 – Ukrainian-Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.

* 1918 – William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General ( d. 2005 )

* 1918 – Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army ( d. 1999 )

Set over a four-day period in March 1918 in the trenches at Saint-Quentin, France, Journey's End gives a glimpse into the experiences of the officers of a British Army infantry company in World War I.

' The Luftwaffe's Army Support Doctrine, 1918 – 1941 ' in The Journal of Military History, Vol.