On September 30, 1918, German ally Bulgaria was forced to sign an armistice in Salonika. On August 8, 1918, 17,000 German soldiers surrendered to the Allies. In many cases, they simply went on leave and never returned. On August 8, 1918, 17,000 German soldiers surrendered to the Allies following a British offensive on the Somme and between summer and fall, the German army saw the attrition of 750,000 to one million men.
troops on European soil swelled to half a million, the British naval blockade had eroded German home-front support for the conflict, and the failure of the Spring Offensive caused German soldiers’ morale to plummet. The United States had entered the conflict in April but the initial impact was negligible-the Army was comprised of just 120,000 men.Īfter the exhaustion of British forces at Passchendaele (left) and the Russian Revolution (right), 1917 had been a bad year for the Allies.īy mid-1918, however, the tally of U.S. The Russian Revolution, French mutinies, Italy’s defeat at Caporetto, and the exhaustion of British forces after Passchendaele-1917 had been a bad year for the Allies. In January 1918, after forty-one months of combat, Allied troops were ready for a ceasefire, but they certainly didn’t expect that it would be forthcoming. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Armistice went into effect, silencing the guns of the Western Front and ending the First World War.
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