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The division's HHC, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta 3/37 Armor, HHC, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta 4/37 Armor, and 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment (1/4 CAV), was then tasked with securing the town of Safwan, Iraq, and the airfield there where the Iraqis were later forced to sign the surrender agreement. Valorous Unit citation:
Japanese Forces capture the Naval Base at Tsingtao. November 11 Politics: Sultan Mehmed V declares Jihad on the Allies of World War I. [38] [39] November 11–22 Middle Eastern, Mesopotamian: Battle of Basra (1914) November 11 – December 6 Eastern: Battle of Łódź (1914) (also known as Silesian offensive). November 13 African, East African
Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localized to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war ...
President Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany, 2 April 1917. The United States was a major supplier of war materials to the Allies but remained neutral in 1914, in large part due to domestic opposition. [7]
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
The Preparedness movement had what political scientists call a "realism" philosophy of world affairs—they believed that economic strength and military muscle were more decisive than idealistic crusades focused on causes like democracy and national self-determination.
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.
A call to arms: propaganda, public opinion, and newspapers in the Great War (2004) Silbey, David. The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914–1916 (2005) [ISBN missing] Simmonds, Alan G. V. Britain and World War One (2011) excerpt and text search; Storey, Neil R. Women in the First World War (2010) Swift, David.