{"id":11507,"date":"2018-11-08T23:38:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T07:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11507"},"modified":"2018-11-08T23:39:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T07:39:23","slug":"the-11th-hour-of-the-11th-day-of-the-11th-month-100-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-11th-hour-of-the-11th-day-of-the-11th-month-100-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month\u2014100 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">T<\/span>he First World War ended 100 years ago this month on November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. Nearly 20 million people had perished since the war began on July 28, 1914.<\/p>\n<p>In early 1918, it looked as if the Central Powers\u2014Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire\u2014would win.<\/p>\n<p>Czarist Russia gave up in December 1917. Tens of thousands of German and Austrian soldiers were freed to redeploy to the Western Front and finish off the exhausted French and British armies.<\/p>\n<p>The late-entering United States did not declare war on Germany and Austria-Hungary until April 1917. Six months later, America had still not begun to deploy troops in any great number.<\/p>\n<p>Then, suddenly, everything changed. By summer 1918, hordes of American soldiers began arriving in France in unimaginable numbers of up to 10,000 doughboys a day. Anglo-American convoys began devastating German submarines. The German high command\u2019s tactical blunders stalled the German offensives of spring 1918\u2014the last chance before growing Allied numbers overran German lines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/11\/08\/the-11th-hour-of-the-11th-day-of-the-11th-month-100-years-ago\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The First World War ended 100 years ago this month on November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. Nearly 20 million people had perished since the war began on July 28, 1914. In early 1918, it looked as if the Central Powers\u2014Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire\u2014would win. Czarist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1206,1172,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2ZB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10046,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-yanks-over-there-100-years-ago\/","url_meta":{"origin":11507,"position":0},"title":"The Yanks over There \u2014 100 Years Ago","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review American intervention saved Western Europe in World War I, but the result was a failed armistice. 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