End of the war

By the autumn of 1918, Germany's allies were collapsing. The Ottoman Empire signed an armistice in October. Austria-Hungary disintegrated in late October and November. Germany itself faced revolution; sailors at Kiel mutinied; the Kaiser abdicated on November 9. An armistice was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne on November 11, 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.