in five days.
Oct. 31--Turkey surrenders; armistice takes effect at noon; conditions
include free passage of Dardanelles.
Nov. 3--Austria surrenders, signing armistice with Italy at 3 P.M. after
500,000 prisoners had been taken.
Nov. 11--Germany surrenders; armistice takes effect at 11 A.M. American
flag hoisted on Sedan front.
Nov. 21--The German high seas fleet, 74 vessels in all, surrendered to
the Allied fleet to be interned at Scapa Flow.
Dec. 4--President Wilson sailed from New York for Europe, to attend
conference on the larger phases of the treaty of peace.
Dec. 15--The Allied force complete the occupation of the left bank of
the Rhine.
1919.
Jan. 10--A republic is proclaimed in Luxemburg.
Jan. 18--The peace congress (without delegates from the defeated powers
and Russia) met at Paris. Premier Clemenceau made permanent chairman.
Jan. 21--Germany by the terms of its new constitution divided into eight
federated republics.
Jan. 25--Discussion of the covenants of the League of Nations begun in
the peace congress.
Feb. 11--Friedrick Ebert elected first president of the German State.
Feb. 14--The draft of a constitution for a League of Nations adopted by
the peace congress.
Feb. 19--Attempted assassination of Premier Clemenceau.
April 23--Montenegro becomes a part of Jugo-Slavia.
May 7--The treaty of peace framed by representatives of the twenty-seven
allied and associated powers, handed to the German delegates at
Versailles.
June 21--The German high sea fleet interned at Scapa Flow sunk at its
anchorage by the officers and men left in charge.
June 28--The treaty of peace signed in the Hall of Mirrors, palace of
Versailles, by all the representatives of the Allied powers (except
China) and the German delegates, officially closing the World War. Just
five years after the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand at
Serajevo.
June 29--President Wilson left Europe for the United States.
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