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The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I (1998), a standard military history. online free to borrow; Committee on Public Information. How the war came to America (1917) online 840pp detailing every sector of society; Cooper, John Milton. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009) Cooper, John Milton. "The World War and ...
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 War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I (1998) ISBN 0-8131-0955-8 OCLC 38842092; Cummins, Cedric Clisten. Indiana public opinion and the World War, 1914–1917, (1945) Davis, Allen F. American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams. (Oxford University Press, 1973) ISBN 0-19-501694-7 OCLC 714527; Doenecke ...
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 ...
Women in America during, World War I, performing farm labor to address the food shortages. 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.
United States Navy operations during World War I began on April 6, 1917, after the formal declaration of war on the German Empire.The United States Navy focused on countering enemy U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea while convoying men and supplies to France and Italy.
82nd Division ("All-American Division") 5 August 1917 18 July 1918 Maj. Gen. Eben Swift Maj. Gen. William P. Burnham Maj. Gen. George B. Duncan: Saint-Mihiel Meuse–Argonne: 83rd Division ("Ohio Division") 5 August 1917 None (Depot Division) Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn Brig. Gen. Willard A. Holbrook: Vittorio Veneto (332nd Infantry only)
"Help the Red Cross". American poster by the U.S. Food Administration, circa 1917-1919. The home front during World War I covers the domestic, economic, social and political histories of countries involved in that conflict. It covers the mobilization of armed forces and war supplies, lives of others, but does not include the military history.