A history of the American nation . GeneralJohn J. PershingCommander-in-ChiefAmerican Expedi-tionary Forces(right) General Armando Diaz Commanding the Italian Armies (above) 582 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION placed them at the gates of Paris. After this repulse the Ger-mans could hold no longer. Little by little, step by step, theywere forced back; it was the beginning of the end. Then camean American victory at St. Mihiel, and fierce, continuous, awfulstruggle in the Argonne and at the Meuse—names which willalways be words of honor in American history. Nothing couldexceed the dash and zeal an
A history of the American nation . GeneralJohn J. PershingCommander-in-ChiefAmerican Expedi-tionary Forces(right) General Armando Diaz Commanding the Italian Armies (above) 582 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION placed them at the gates of Paris. After this repulse the Ger-mans could hold no longer. Little by little, step by step, theywere forced back; it was the beginning of the end. Then camean American victory at St. Mihiel, and fierce, continuous, awfulstruggle in the Argonne and at the Meuse—names which willalways be words of honor in American history. Nothing couldexceed the dash and zeal and the courage with which theseuntried Americans fought on the soil of France for honor and aworld of justice. Americas soldiers, fighting by the side of the. A French Tank Crossing No Mans Land heroic w^arriors of Britain and France, helped to turn the tideand did a noble part in defeating the forces whose cruel andmerciless leaders had plunged the world into the horrible agonyof conflict.^ November ii, 1918, anarmistice was signed, by ^ This war with its gas, and airplane bombardments, and tanks, andsubmarines, and poisons, and filthy trenches, and dirt, and mud, and star-vation (starvation chiefly for those that did not fight)—with its vast expense(something like two hundred billions of dollars), with its awful loss of lifeamong the most gifted and the most brave, with its millions of mutilated THE WORLD WAR 583 the terms of which Germany was practically placed at the mercyof the Allies. Her vaunted strength was gone, wasted in a ter-rific conflict in which she had hoped to see the world at her Kaiser fled to Holland, the government passing into thehands of moderate Socialist leaders; the emperor of Austriaabdicated; the Germa
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