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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.
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 ]
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 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 ...
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.
American imports and exports plunged by more than two thirds, but since international trade was less than 5% of the American economy, the damage done was limited. The entire world economy, led by the United States, had fallen into a downward spiral that got worse and worse, and in 1931–32 began plunging downward even faster.
American Experience, originally titled The American Experience, is an American television program and a PBS documentary series created by Peter McGhee. The series airs documentaries about significant historical events or figures in United States history. The show is produced primarily by WGBH-TV, a television station and PBS affiliate located in Boston, Massachusetts. WGBH-TV creates non ...
Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919 (1997) May, Ernest R. The World War and American isolation, 1914–1917 (1959) online at ACLS e-books; Scott, Emmett Jay. Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War (1919) 511 pages online edition; Slosson, Preston William.