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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 ]
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 ...
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
People had more money than they could spend, so they saved it, especially in government savings bonds. Bond rallies in many cities featured Hollywood film stars, who drew in the crowds needed to make the program a success. The buyer paid 3/4 of the face value of a war bond, and received the full face value back after a set number of years.
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 ...
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.
Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War (1919) 511 pages online edition; Slosson, Preston William. The Great Crusade and after, 1914–1928 (1930). social history [ISBN missing] Titus, James, ed. The Home Front and War in the Twentieth Century: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective (1984) essays by scholars ...