Existing comment:
April 21: The "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen is shot down and killed
April 21: Guatemala at war with Germany
May 16: Sedition Act of 1918; extends provision of the Espionage Act and further limits free speech
June: Civil war in Russia erupts
June 6: Battle of Chateau-Thierry; U.S. Marines launch attack at Belleau Wood
July 15–17: Second Battle of the Marne; French and U.S. forces stop German advance on Paris
July 16–17: Bolsheviks execute Tsar Nicholas II and his family
August 10: U.S. First Army organized; U.S. now has an independent fighting force in France capable of conducting large-scale offensives
August 16: First U.S. soldiers arrive in Vladivostok, Russia's Siberian port; these occupying forces eventually grow to 9,000 |