Review of the World War and History Making Events of 1917
A compact year in review noting United States entry into the conflict and key military and political shifts. Highlights include the Russian revolutions, German submarine campaign, Allied offensives on the Western and Italian fronts, Greek turmoil, and the global spread of belligerence with new nations joining the Allies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Russia
Teuton
West Front
Italy
United States of America
American Republic
Germany
Ofazar Nicholas
Arras
Flanders
St. Quentin
Austria
Tolmine
Adriatic
China
Cuba
Brazil
Siam
Constantine
Greece
France
Roumania
Wilson
Senate
Irish
War Congress Opens With Far Reaching Powers and Losses
The Sixty fifth Congress opened a wartime session on April 2, approving bonds of up to 5 billion dollars and enabling treasury purchases of enemy government securities up to 3 billion. Key measures passed include conscription, large war appropriations, espionage and food control acts, and expansive tax and revenue laws. The record recaps major disasters and incidents from 1914 to 1918 worldwide, including ship explosions, torpedo strikes, tornadoes, mine blasts, and the Halifax harbor disaster with the Mont Blanc and Imo collision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Germany
House
Senate
Army
Wilson
War and Navy Departments
San Salvador
Salvador
Butte
Mont
Christopher Columbia
Milwaukee
Wis
Niagara Gorge
New Woaterford
Cape Breton
Natal
South Africa
Halifax
N. 8
Mont Blanc
Imo
Inden
Belgian Relief Commission
Disasters of 1917 Across Land and Sea
The 1917 year saw numerous disasters worldwide due to fires, explosions, earthquakes, and tornadoes alongside war actions. Notable quakes include January 5 in Boxmos causing 800 deaths and January 25 on Ball Island Malhy with 60 fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boxmos
Ball Island
Malhy
Archi. de Etata Gyeat
Industrial unrest and wartime labor struggles of 1917
The year 1917 saw widespread industrial tension in the United States driven by war needs. Strikes threatened by railroad workers and Arizona copper miners tested government labor policy, with the Adamson law upheld by the Supreme Court and deportations of I W W members amid antiwar sentiment. Labor leaders backed the war effort as wage talks and shipyard disputes shaped economic strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
United States Supreme Court
Arizona
Bigbee
Artiz
Industrial Workers of the World
I. W. W. Lenders
Gallup
N. M
Frank Little
I. W. W. Lender
Butte
Mont
Eastern
San Francisco
Wilson
American Federation of Labor
Buffalo
Four Brotherhoods
Rene
Wilson appoints Hoover and Garfield to food and fuel posts
President Wilson names Herbert Hoover to head the food control board and later food administrator, assigns Dr. H A Garfield as fuel administrator, and fixes basic coal and wheat prices as part of the 1917 wartime controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Herbert C. Hoover
Belgian Relief Commission
Food Control Board
Congress
Mr. Hoover
H. A. Garfield
United States
United States Wheat Committee
Vaguely: Virgin Islands Statehood and Nation Wide Riots Summary
The passage covers the 1917 transfer of the Danish West Indies to the United States as the Virgin Islands for 25 million dollars. It notes race riots in Ernst Missouri Houston Texas and Milwaukee, with deaths and convictions, plus a 1919 prohibition amendment vote and New York mayoral election results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danish West Indies
Denmark
United States
Virgin Islands
Ernst St. Louis
Twenty-fourth U. S. Infantry
Houston
Tex
New York
Chicago
Judge Hylan
Fusion
Milwaukee
Wis
San Antonio
House of Representatives
Senate
Mexican Crisis Eases as U S Withdraws Troops in 1917
The United States withdraws its forces from Mexico after nearly a year of intervention as President Wilson ends entanglement. General Carranza is elected on March 11, bringing a calmer phase, though Villa resumes activity by year’s end with the capture of Ojinaga on November 13 and internment of Carranza troops across the border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
United States
Memphis
Illinois
Vigilancia
Wilson
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Cuba
Austria-Hungary
Arras
Soissons
Reims
Simms
Atlantic
Russia
Kronstadt
Petrograd
Elihu Root
American Railroad Commission
John F. Stevens
John J. Pershing
France
London
Washington
Constantine
Balkans
Great Britain
Alexander
Bibert
Hleutherios Venizelos
Bulgaria
Turkey
Kerensky
Galicia
Maany
Rvelmenta
Cellor von Bethmann-Hollweg
Georg Michaelis
Siam
Flanders
Dixmude
Warneton
Pope Benedict
Tolmino
Adriatic Sea
Monte Santo
Isonzo
Liberia
China
Austria-Fringary
Benedict
Lnes
Mexico
Carranza
General Pershing
Mesxico
Republic
Villa
Aids
Ojinaga
Global unrest and revolutions shadow 1917 year
A survey notes revolutions and civil strife across nations in 1917. It cites Russia’s czar abdication, Greece’s king’s exit, monarchist plots in China, ensuing civil war in Cuba, Irish home rule agitation, and US Japan diplomacy over regional interests, all set against World War I dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Czar
Nicholas
Constantine
Greece
China
Hsuan Tung
Clyt
Chang Hsun
Peking
Repubican
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Cuba
Gomez
Great Britain
House of Cohimona
Lloyd George
Ireland
United States
Japan
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Mexico City
Texas
New Mexico
Department of ‘State
Hina
Shanghai
Gzar
Dimself
Kornitoff
Ykerensky
Korniloff
Alexieff
Antilles
Peru
Uruguay
Ostend
George von Hertling
Michaelis
North Sea
Finland
Tagliamento
Piave
Plave
Scarpe
Byng
Indenburg
Cambrai
Bungla
Lenine
German Troops Raided Q& Salient
Alcedo
United States Congress
Jacob Jones
Kaledines
Jerusalem
THE
WAR Congress
Archangel
Yokohama
Mead
Indiana
New Albany
Ind
Chester
Hastings
Ludlow
Cole
Gyoengoes
Hungary
Kansas
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Arkansas
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