The Bolsheviks assassinate Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family and take Russia out of the war under the 1918 Brest-Litovsk Treaty with Germany.

The Germans had evidently transported revolutionary leader V.I.

Lenin to Russia in a sealed train.

The Central Powers agree to an armistice in 1918.

The belligerents have deployed some 66 million poison gas artillery shells during the Great War.

Czechoslovakia and Poland proclaim themselves republics in 1918.

An attempted assassination of Lenin occurs in 1918.

In 1918, the Arabs are liberated from the remainder of the Turkish Empire.

Britain's Lawrence of Arabia wins the support of the Arabs in spite of the hated Balfour Declaration.

The independent Republic of Armenia is born in 1918 in Russian Armenia, where thousands of refugees from the Turkish slaughter have gathered.

With allied support, loyalists and reactionaries fight the Bolsheviks for control of Russia, unsuccessfully.

Between 1918 to 1922, the US Navy will land troops five times to fight the Bolsheviks in the effort to overthrow the new socialist government of what is to become the USSR.

The great flu epidemic of 1918 kills 20 million people over the world.

The epidemic may have been caused by a type A virus, possibly the swine flu virus.

Some attribute the epidemic to widespread use of vaccines; a minorit opinion connects it to wartime use of poison gases.

Wilson aids Russia’s new Soviet regime with bridge-building projects.