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Mit'a was repurposed by the Spanish Crown in 1573, drafting one-seventh of the adult male population to work in mines. [3] A relative of mit'a (federal work) is the modern Quechua system of Minka or faena, which is mostly applied in small-scale villages. The Minka was adopted during the 1960s on large-scale federal projects of Peru.
The American Army and the First World War (2014). 484 pp. online review; Woodward, David R. Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918 (1993) online; Young, Ernest William. The Wilson Administration and the Great War (1922) online edition; Zieger, Robert H. America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience (2000)
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.
During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs that had either been vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war, or had been created as part of the war effort. The high demand for weapons and the overall wartime situation resulted in munitions factories collectively becoming the largest employer of American women by ...
The United States became more anti-immigration in outlook during this period. 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 ...
Heroes All!: A Compendium of the Names and Official Citations of the Soldiers and Citizens of the United States and of Her Allies who Were Decorated by the American Government for Exceptional Heroism and Conspicuous Service Above and Beyond the Call of Duty in the War with Germany, 1917-1919. Fassett Publishing Company. OCLC 394536.
Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America (1997) Breen, William J. "The mobilization of skilled labor in World War I: 'Voluntarism,' the US public service reserve, and the Department of Labor, 1917–1918," Labor History (1991) 32#2 pp 253–272. Clark, John Maurice. The costs of the World War to the American people (1931) online free
First Army is the oldest and longest-established field army of the United States Army. [4] It served as a theater army, having seen service in both World War I and World War II, and supplied the US army with soldiers and equipment during the Korean War and the Vietnam War under some of the most famous and distinguished officers of the U.S. Army.