August 1918

Friday 02:

Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.

Thursday 08:

Canadian troops, backed by Australians, begin a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines. German General Erich Ludendorff will later call this the "black day of the German army."

Sunday 11:

Battle of Amiens ends

Tuesday 13:

Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.

Saturday 17:

Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.

Friday 30:

Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.