Editing 1918 (section)

=== August ===
{{main|August 1918}}
* [[August 2]] – [[North Russia Intervention]]: Anti-Bolshevik forces stage a coup at [[Arkhangelsk]], and an occupation by Allied forces follows.<ref>{{Citation|author=David S. Foglesong|title=America's Secret War Against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War 1917–1920|chapter=Fighting, But Not At War|date= 2014|publisher=UNC Press Books |isbn=978-1469611136|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUHn9nCC9EoC&q=US+intervention+in+Russia}}</ref>
* [[August 3]] – WWI: Australian hospital ship {{ship|HMAT|Warilda}} is torpedoed and sunk in the [[English Channel]] on passage from [[Le Havre]] to [[Southampton]] by German submarine {{SMU|UC-49||6}} with the loss of 123 of the 801 people on board.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/6456.html|title=Warilda|publisher=Uboat.net|access-date=2012-12-17}}</ref>
* [[August 8]] – WWI: [[Battle of Amiens (1918)|Battle of Amiens]] – British, Canadian and Australian troops begin a string of almost continuous victories, the '[[Hundred Days Offensive]]', with an 8-mile push through the German front lines, taking 12,000 prisoners. German General [[Erich Ludendorff]] later calls this the "black day of the German Army".<ref>{{cite news|first=John|last=Lichfield|title=A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: The 'blackest day' of the German army|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments/a-history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments-the-blackest-day-of-the-german-army--and-the-assault-that-finally-broke-its-spirit-9588029.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments/a-history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments-the-blackest-day-of-the-german-army--and-the-assault-that-finally-broke-its-spirit-9588029.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|location=London|date=2014-07-07|access-date=2014-07-07}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[August 10]] – [[October Revolution|Russian Revolution]]: The British commander in Archangel is told to help the [[White movement|White Russians]].
* [[August 16]] – The [[Battle of Lake Baikal]] is fought by the [[Czechoslovak legion]], against the [[Red Army]].
* [[August 21]] – WWI: The [[Second Battle of the Somme (1918)|Second Battle of the Somme]] begins.
* [[August 23]] – The [[Bessarabian Peasants' Party]] is created.
* [[August 27]] – [[Battle of Ambos Nogales]]: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican [[Carrancistas]] and their German [[Military advisor|advisors]] at [[Nogales, Arizona]], in the only battle of WWI fought on United States soil.
* [[August 30]]
** In response to the [[October Revolution]] in Russia, [[Vladimir Lenin]] is shot and wounded by [[Fanny Kaplan]] in Moscow, but survives.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.2307/2498997 |jstor=2498997 |title=The 1918 Attempt on the Life of Lenin: A New Look at the Evidence |first=Semion |last=Lyandres |journal=Slavic Review |volume=48 |issue=3 |date=Autumn 1989 |pages=432–448 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|s2cid=155228899 }}</ref>
** [[Moisei Uritsky]], the Petrograd head of the [[Cheka]], is assassinated.
[[File:Lenin attempt.jpg|150px|thumb|[[August 30]]: Attempted assassination of [[Lenin]], depicted by Vladimir Pchelin]]