Review of the World War and History Making Events of Years
A summary of major 1917 to 1916 events highlights American entry, Russian upheaval, and shifting fronts. It notes submarine warfare, peace moves, Allied offensives from Arras to the Adriatic, Greek royal turmoil, and later Bolshevik rise as conflict persisted across Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States of America
American Republic
Germany
Czar Nicholas
Russia
United States
West Front
Arras
Flanders
St. Quentin
Austria
Tolmino
Adriatic
Italy
China
Cuba
Brazil
Siam
Constantine
Greece
France
Roumania
Wilson
Senate
Laconia
Trish
War Congress Opens Renewed World War Effort and Crises
The Sixty fifth congress opened with a broad war agenda. Key actions included a $5 billion war bonds bill, conscription law, a $3.28 billion big war appropriation, and the espionage act. Major energy followed by food control, air service funding, and tax measures as crises unfolded domestically and abroad. Losses and disasters abroad, including ship explosions, tornadoes, mine blasts, and city fires, marked a perilous year. The administration appointed Hoover as food administrator and set coal and wheat price controls as the war effort intensified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Germany
House
Senate
Army
Wilson
War and Navy Departments
Disasters of 1917 Across Land and Sea
A year summary of 1917 noting fires, explosions, earthquakes, and other calamities worldwide. It cites a January 5 For maso earthquake killing 300, a January 25 Malay archipelago quake killing 50, and a February 2 Chicago tenement explosion killing 25, among others.
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Formosa
Bait Island
Malay Archipelago
Chicago
1917 Labor Strife Ties to War Efforts Across U S
Industrial unrest shadowed the United States in 1917 as war needs spurred government action and union leaders backed the war effort. The year saw threatened and averted railroad strikes linked to the Adamson act, Arizona copperfield clashes, I W W deportations and a 25 thousand San Francisco strike, plus a government wage commission and a 40 percent wage demand by railroad brotherhoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Orgamien
United States Supreme Court
Arizona
Bighee
Ariz
Industrial Workers of the World
Gallup
N. M
Frank Little
Butte
Mont
Eastern
San Francisco
Wilson
American Federation of Labor
Buffalo
Four Brotherhoods
Riots and Political Shifts Across 1919 United States
A review of 1919 events notes the Danish West Indies becoming U S Virgin Islands, race riots in East St Louis and Houston with multiple deaths, prosecutions and hangings, bombings in Milwaukee, November elections in New York and Chicago, Hylan’s mayoral win, and Congress proposing a national prohibition amendment after Senate action.
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Danish West Indies
Denmark
United States
Virgin Islands
East St. Louis
Twenty-fourth U. S. Infantry
Houston
Tex
New York
Chicago
Judge Hylan
Milwaukee
Wis
San Antonio
House of Representatives
Senate
Mexico and United States Face Mexican Crisis Easing in 1917
The long US Mexican friction eased in 1917 as World War I drew US attention. President Wilson ordered troops withdrawn by Pershing who led forces out of Mexico on February 5. Carranza was elected on March 11 and order began to restore in the republic. Villa activity resumed later, with Ojinaga captured on November 13 and Carranza troops interned across the border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mexico City
Germany
Mexico
Japan
Jopa
Germny
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
United Staes Department of
Ching
Shanghai
Nicholas
Russian Revolutionary Movement
Czar
the Duta
Council of Ministers
Prince Looff
Wilson
Congress
Tar
Senate
House of Representatives
G1 C Germay
Cuba
Austria
Grent
Arras
Soissons
Reims
Vacuum
Simms
Atlantic
Russia
Kronstadt
Petrograd
Elihu Reot
American Railroad Commission
John F. Stevens
John J. Pershing
France
London
Washington
Cellor von Bethmann-Hollweg
Georg Michaelis
Siam
Austria-Hungary
Flanders
Dixmude
Warneton
Pope Benedict
Tolmino
Adriatic Sea
Monte Santo
Isonzo
Liberia
Tsonzo
Teuton
Italy
Antilles
Peru
Uruguay
Brazil
Ostend
George von Hertling
Michaelis
North Sea
Finland
Tagliamento
Piave
St. Quentin
Tthe Scarpe
Byng
Trindenburg
Cambrai
M. Lenine
Kerensky
Lenine Premiser
Lenine
West Front
Alcedo
United States Congress
Jacob Jones
Kaledines
Korniloff
Jerusalem
Carranza
General Pershing
Villa
Aids
Ojinaga
Global unrest in 1917 includes revolutions and civil war
From Russia to Greece, China, Cuba and Ireland the year 1917 saw revolutions, abdications, civil strife and political upheaval. Monarchist efforts in China collapsed by mid July while Cuba’s rebellion was quashed with Gomez captured. Ireland pressed for home rule as US Japan talks yielded an open door accord.
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Russia
Czar
Nicholas
Constantine
Greece
China
Hsuan Tung
Chang Hsun
Peking
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Cuba
Gomez
Great Britain
House of Commons
Lloyd George
Ireland
United States
Japan
McClure
Syndicas
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Donald F. Biggs
Memphis
Illinois
Vigilancia
Healdton
Balkans
Alexander
Sibert
Eleutherios Venizelos
Bulgaria
Turkey
Galicia
U Toin
Chan
Alexieff
THE
WAR Congress
Archangel
Yokohama
Indiana
New Albany
Ind
Chester
Hastings
Ludlow
Colo
Gyoengoes
Hungary
Kansas
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Arkansas
San Salvador
Salvador
Niagara Gorge
New Waterford
Cape Breton
Clay
Athens
Africa
North Branford
Conn
Saloniki
Tokio
Natal
South Africa
Halifax
N. S
Mont Blanc
Imo
Inden
Belgian Relief Commission
Herbert C. Hoover
Food Control Board
Mr. Hoover
H. A. Garfield
United States Wheat Committee
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