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The channel produced weekly content that follows the events that occurred one hundred years prior during the war. [ 11 ] After the centennial's conclusion, Indy Neidell , the first host and writer of the series, left the project to present a new channel focussing on the Second World War . [ 12 ]
The year the United States entered World War I was marked by near disaster for the Allies on all the European fronts. A French offensive in April, with which the British cooperated, was a failure, and was followed by widespread mutinies in the French armies.
Indiana Neidell (born 28 September 1967) is an American-Swedish documentarian, historian, actor, voice actor, musician and YouTube personality, best known for presenting the video series, The Great War on The Great War Channel [3] [4] which documented World War I in real time using modern research, various secondary sources and archival footage.
“The Conundrum of American Power in the Age of World War I,” Modern American History (2019): 1-21. Hannigan, Robert E. 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 ...
US-allied victory - The American Revolution started as a civil war within the British Empire. [nb 1] It became a larger international war in 1778 once France joined. [nb 2] Treaty of Paris (1783) Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America and the Thirteen Colonies. President of the Continental Congress in American ...
Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I (2011) 433 pages; comprehensive history ISBN 978-0-8131-3002-6 OCLC 682895305; Esposito, David M. The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: American War Aims in World War I. (Praeger, 1996) 159pp ISBN 0-275-95493-5 OCLC 33244422
The American Immigration Act of 1924 limited immigration from countries where 2% of the total U.S. population, per the 1890 census (not counting African Americans), were immigrants from that country. Thus, the massive influx of Europeans that had come to America during the first two decades of the century slowed to a trickle.
Weapons for Liberty – U.S.A. Bonds, Liberty bond poster by J. C. Leyendecker (1918). During World War I, the United States saw a systematic mobilization of the country's entire population and economy to produce the soldiers, food supplies, ammunitions and money necessary to win the war.