Review of the World War and History Making Events of 1917
A summary of 1917’s pivotal moments including the United States entry into World War I, Russian upheavals, Allied offensives in France Italy and Flanders, and the global ripple effects with other nations entering the war. The narrative notes submarine warfare, political revolutions, and major battles shaping the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States of America
American Republic
Germany
Nicholas
Russia
United States
West Front
Arras
Flanders
St. Quentin
Austria
Tolmino
Adriatic
Italy
China
Cuba
Brazil
Siam
Constantine
Greece
France
Wilson
Cunard
Irish
Disasters on Land and Sea in 1917
A summary of major disasters in 1917 across land and sea. Earthquakes in Imosa and Bali Island caused hundreds of deaths. A Chicago tenement fire killed 25, a ship explosion in Archangel killed 30 and another in Yokohama killed 100. The Mendi sinking cost 625 South African miners. Tornadoes in Indiana killed over 20 and 38 died in New Albany. A Russian ammunition plant explosion near Chester killed 112.
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San Salvador
Salvador
Butte
Mont
Niagara Gorge
New Waterford
Cape Breton
Clay
South Africa
Halifax
N. S
Mont Blanc
Imo
Inden
Belgian Relief Commission
United States
Rami
Orimosa
Bali
Chicago
Archangel
Yokohama
Indiana
New Albany
Ind
Chester
Industrial unrest and war date back to 1917 U S
The year saw widespread labor tension amid wartime conditions. Strikes threatened railroads, Arizona copper fields, and San Francisco shipyards. Government mediation and a Wilson led commission sought to curb disruptions while labor backed the war effort and opposed antiwar agitation. Hoover was named relief head May 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
United States Supreme Court
Arizona
Bigbee
Ariz
Industrial Workers of the World
W. W
Gallup
N. M
Frank Little
IT. W. W
Butte
Mant
Eastern
San Francisco
Wilson
American Federation of Labor
Buffalo
Four Brotherhoods
Herbert C. Hoover
Belgian Relief Commission
Hoover Named Food Administrator and Coal Price Orders
The record notes that as head of the food control board, Hoover became food administrator on August 11 after Congress enacted food control. On August 21 President Wilson set basic coal prices in producing districts. August 28 Wilson appointed Dr. H A Garfield fuel administrator. On August 20 the U S wheat committee fixed the 1917 crop price at 2.20 dollars per bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Food Control Board
Congress
Hoover
Wilson
Wilken
H. A. Garfield
United States
United States Wheat Committee
Riots and Prosecutions Mark National Race Tensions
Chronicle recalls July riots in East St Louis with over 20 Black fatalities and two White deaths plus extensive fire damage. It notes subsequent state prosecutions and a federal inquiry, plus other historic race riot incidents and a December vote by Congress to propose a national Prohibition amendment.
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East St. Louis
Twenty-fourth
U. S. Infantry
Wayrotesn Ta Rivers
Thien
Dcs
Milwaukee
Wis
Houston
Tex
San Antonio
House of Representatives
Senate
Mexico Carranza Wins Presidency as War Draws Near
The U S and Mexico move past a two year crisis as Wilson withdraws troops in 1917 and Carranza is elected president on March 11. By year end order returns and Villa reactivates with the capture of Ojinaga on November 13, forcing Carranza soldiers to seek refuge across the border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mexico
Carranza
Wilson
General Pershing
Villa
Aids
Ojinaga
Global unrest and revolutions shadow 1917 world affairs
In 1917 unrest spanned many nations with revolutions and civil conflicts. Russia's abdication, Greece changes, China's monarchist bid and later republic, Cuba's rebel suppression, Ireland home rule talks, and a US Japan accord on China closed the year's volatile diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Czar
Nicholas
Constantine
Greece
China
Hsuan Tung
Chang Tsun
Deking
Repubican
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Cuba
Gomez
Great Britain
House of Commons
Lloyd George
Ireland
United States
Japan
McClure
Suwa
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Teuton
Donald F. Biggs
Duma
Council of Ministers
Prince Looff
Soissons
City of
Memphis
Minuis
Vigilancia
Healdton
Arrago
Vacuum
Simms
Atlantic
Wronstadt
Petrograd
American Commission
Elihu Root
American Railroad Commission
John J. Stevens
Kronstadt
John J. Pershing
London
Balkans
Alexander
Sibert
Eleutherios Venizelos
Bulgaria
Turkey
Kerensky
Galicia
Prince Lyvoff
Dixmude
Warneton
Adriatic Sea
Monte Santo
Isonzo
Liberia
Korniloff
Alestoff
America
Antilles
Peru
Uruguay
Tagliamento
Piave
Piavre
Scarpe
Byng
Swindenburg
Cambrai
M. Lenine
Alcedo
United States Congress
Jacob Jones
Kaledines
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