American intervention saved Western Europe in World War I, but the result was a failed armistice. One hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. The ongoing ...

World War One was one of the deadliest conflicts ... the leaders of the Allied Powers forced a defeated Germany to sign the ...

Is there an event from the immediate aftermath of World War I that strikes you as particularly prescient today? On Dec. 15, barely one month after the Nov. 11 armistice, a black veteran, Charles Lewis ...

During the First World War it took four hours for the armistice to come into effect, and then over 12 hours for troops on the Western Front to actually stop fighting. The sad result of this tardiness?

An essay from HistoryNet on the execution of the World War I armistice ... and how thousands on both sides may have died needlessly. Military Times © 2025 ...

History has no more glorious day than yesterday, which saw the end of the Great World War and ... Lloyd George. 'The Armistice was signed at 5am this morning,' he said. 'War ceased at eleven ...

A few days later, on Nov. 11, 1918, an armistice declared the end of World War I, and Wieland, an American soldier, rang the town’s church bells and watched fireworks in every direction.

It was wonderful. Primary school children narrate the story of the armistice agreement that ended World War One. We hear the story of Maud Thompson, aged 11, who describes how she woke up to the ...