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| 1918 May |
| | | Women are enlisted in Britain's air force, in the newly formed WRAF (Women's Royal Air Force) | |
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| 1918 May |
| | | US troops are by now fighting in large numbers on the western front | |
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| 1918 |
| | | from June - Faisal and T.E. Lawrence pin down a Turkish army in a campaign of guerrilla warfare | |
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| 1918 |
| | | Russia's peasants, victims of White and Red Terror, suffer atrocities from both sides in the civil war | |
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| 1918 |
| | | Civil war enables the Bolsheviks to impose a rigid system of state control on the Russian economy, through War Communism and Food Brigades | |
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| 1918 July 8 |
| | | Hermann Goering, a fighter ace who has shot down 22 Allied aircraft by the end of the war, becomes commander of the Richthofen Squadron | |
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| 1918 July 17 |
| | | Tsar Nicholas II and his wife and children are murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg | |
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| 1918 July 18 |
| | | The Allies hold the Germans on the Marne and begin a successful counterattack with tanks | |
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| 1918 August |
| | | A world-wide pandemic of influenza breaks out, and within the space of a year kills 30 million people | |
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| 1918 August 4 |
| | | Adolf Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross, First Class, a decoration rarely given to a corporal | |
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