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| 1918 |
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| Average real wages for manual labor rose by about 20 percent in industries like steel, textiles, shipbuilding, and munitions between 1914 and 1918. | 1 |
| National War Labor Board created to mediate labor-management disputes. AFL membership rose from 2.7 million to 4 million between 1916 and 1919. | 2 |
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| Jan. 8 |
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| Fourteen Points set forth by President Wilson in an address to Congress defining war aims of the U.S. (See 1919, Jan. 18). | 3 |
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| April |
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| When an anti-German mob wrapped a German American in an American flag and lynched him near St. Louis, Missouri, a local judge called the lynching a “patriotic murder.” The phrase “100 percent American” became a watchword for squashing dissent. | 4 |
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| April 5 |
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| War Finance Commission created with fund of $500 million for financing essential industries. | 5 |
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| April 10 |
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| Webb-Pomerene Act exempting export associations from the restraints of the antitrust laws, with a view to encouraging export trade. | 6 |
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| June 13 |
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| First division embarked for France. | 7 |
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| July 18–Nov. 11 |
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| American troops participated in six prolonged assaults upon German positions. Two of these were conducted wholly by American forces: the Battle of St. Mihiel (Sept. 12–16) and that of the Meuse-Argonne (Sept. 26–Nov. 11), in which 1.2 million men were engaged (See Sept. 12–13). | 8 |
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| Nov. 11 |
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| Armistice signed (See Nov. 11). | 9 |
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| Dec. 13 |
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| Arrival of President Wilson in France for the peace conference. | 10 |
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