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Much of the focus in Washington was maximizing the economic output of the nation. The overall result was a dramatic increase in GDP, the export of vast quantities of supplies to the Allies and to American forces overseas, the end of unemployment, and a rise in civilian consumption even as 40% of the GDP went to the war effort.
When Pope Benedict XV in a 1917 speech called for the immediate end of the war on the basis of the restoration of pre-1914 status quo, Wilson in a letter to the pontiff on 27 August 1917 rejected the pope's call for peace as he wrote: "Our response must be based on stern facts and upon nothing else...America wanted not a mere cessation of arms ...
In 1917 Wilson won the support of most of the moralists by proclaiming "a war to make the world safe for democracy." If they truly believed in their ideals, he explained, now was the time to fight. The question then became whether Americans would fight for what they deeply believed in, and the answer turned out to be a resounding "Yes". [121]
April 22 – Ambrose Schindler, American football player, actor (died 2018) April 23 – Dorian Leigh, model (died 2008) April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald, African American jazz singer (died 1996) [17] April 26 – Virgil Trucks, baseball player (died 2013) April 28 – Robert Cornthwaite, character actor (died 2006) April 29 Celeste Holm, actress ...
In Milan, in May 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries organised and engaged in rioting calling for an end to the war, and managed to close down factories and stop public transportation. [324] The Italian army was forced to enter Milan with tanks and machine guns to face Bolsheviks and anarchists , who fought violently until May 23 when the army ...
Uncle Sam pointing his finger at the viewer in order to recruit soldiers for the American Army during World War I, 1917-1918 Sheet music cover for patriotic song, 1917. The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act (Pub. L. 65–12, 40 Stat. 76, enacted May 18, 1917) authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
Steigerwald, Alison Rebecca. "Women United Against War: American Female Peace Activists’ Work During the First World War, 1914-1917' (PhD dissertation, The University of Iowa, 2020) online; Tylee, Claire M. "'Maleness run riot'—The great war and women's resistance to militarism." Women's Studies International Forum 11#3 (1988) online
The World Remade: America In World War I (2017), popular survey, 672pp; North, Diane M.T. California at War: The State and the People during World War I (2018) online review; Paxson, Frederic L. Pre-war years, 1913-1917 (1936) wide-ranging scholarly survey; online. Paxson, Frederic L. American at War 1917-1918 (1939) wide-ranging scholarly ...