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The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914–24 (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) Kang, Sung Won, and Hugh Rockoff. "Capitalizing patriotism: the Liberty loans of World War I." Financial History Review 22.1 (2015): 45+ online; Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (2004), comprehensive coverage online; Malin ...
A full-page ad in Seattle magazine The Town Crier (August 7, 1915) promotes the city's two German-American newspapers, one in English and one in German, and promises "Reliable War News". German Americans by this time usually had only weak ties to Germany; however, they were fearful of negative treatment they might receive if the United States ...
British defense lines were pierced in rapid succession. By 26 March Amiens was seriously threatened, and on the following day a gap was created between the French and British armies. But the Germans lacked reserves to exploit their initial phenomenal successes, and the Allies moved in enough reserves to bring the offensive to a halt by 6 April.
r/AskHistorians was founded August 28, 2011 as a question and answer forum for sharing historical knowledge. [5] It grew to be one of the largest online history forums. [3] [4] [2] The site's rules state that all answers must be serious and based in reliable academic sources, and regular contributors who demonstrate an expert level of knowledge in their field are given a "flair" which displays ...
"World War One Hall of Memories". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on January 25, 2019; BBC News (2017). "WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?". BBC News; Brown, Meredith Mason (2013). Touching America's History: From the Pequot War Through World War II.
In 1944, he published his dissertation Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915. It was a commercially successful (200,000 copies) critique of late-19th-century American capitalism and its ruthless "dog-eat-dog" economic competition and Social Darwinian self-justification.
News of the telegram further inflamed tensions between the United States and Mexico. "Exploding in his Hands" However, many Americans, particularly those with German or Irish ancestry, wished to avoid the conflict in Europe. Since the public had been told falsely that the telegram had been stolen in a decoded form in Mexico, the message was at ...
Austro-Hungarian soldiers executing men and women in Serbia, 1916 [14]. After being occupied completely in early 1916, both Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria announced that Serbia had ceased to exist as a political entity, and that its inhabitants could therefore not invoke the international rules of war dictating the treatment of civilians as defined by the Geneva Conventions and the Hague ...