As many as million died, or one out of every human beings on the planet, killing more American troops than those that died on World War I battlefields.. ..…

At last, it came at 11 00 am on November 11, 1918, amid the mud and fallen leaves of European, World War I was over.. ..…

During World War I the trio performed in Europe for the troops. . After the war they toured again around the United States. ..…

But, that extension of  US citizenship for Puerto Rico came just in the nick of time for Wilson Administration to draft men from Puerto Rico to fight World War I, similarly in the subsequent wars of United States. ..…

By way of example, readers of Agatha Christie stories written before World War II will come across stock anti-Semitic representations of Jewish characters. ... The British Labour Party was formed in 1900 before World War I, and if there has been one political..…

Unfortunately, this success wouldn’t be enough to overcome the obstacles created by World War I, where many socialists gave in to pressures and accepted the war, causing a giant rift in the party. ..…

Bulgaria was part of the Muslim Ottoman Empire before the end of World War I. ..…

This will be a solemn march led by veterans and military families on the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, which ended World War I, to call for celebrating Armistice Day instead of Veterans Day in the US. ..…

The IWW was militantly against World War I, yet they saved their lives either by enlisting or being drafted into the army. ..…

Then Germany excluded representatives from Ovaherero and Nama peoples, those who were the victims of the atrocities, and refused to admit that its actions constituted genocide, even after condemning Turkey for its genocide by Ottoman Empire against Armenians World War I. ..…

This act of aggression triggered what American school books call the French and Indian War, but many historians refer to as the Seven Years War (1754–1761) and others as the Great War for the Empire, reflecting the fact that the conflict in North America was only part of an all-out war for..…

Many Americans objected to the U.S. entry into the “Great War.” Foremost among the groups that campaigned against entry were the Socialist Party of America (SP) and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). ..…

Davenport Daily Times had sent their correspondent to Europe to report on the pulse beat and heart throbs of real life in the cities and villages that had suffered tremendous death and destruction during Great War.. ..…

In 1910 – shortly before the watershed events of World War I, the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and the breakup of several European empires – all three major branches of Christianity (Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism) were predominantly concentrated in Europe. ..…

Trump is very proud of for being able to properly pronounce Qatar, knowing when World War I happened, eliminating Johnson Amendment, and bragging about how Christians will be able to speak their minds .. ..…

Erected in the aftermath of World War I, Peace Cross has stood sailors, airmen, and marines. ..…

After World War I, Allies stripped Germany of its African colonies. ..…

Emerging from a brief post-World War I recession, the nation enjoyed previously unmatched prosperity. ..…

The 1919 Treaty of Versailles imposed on defeated Germany by the victors of World War I was similarly punitive. ..…

A federal appeals court has ruled that the 1916 law was no longer on the books, because Congress wiped it out during World War I. . . . . . ... Although Congress never said explicitly that it was wiping out that provision, it omitted that language in 1918 when it amended the law to..…

This is another cross-post from the Great War Blog, a daily diary of your modern world being born in blood and fire a century ago. ... Indeed, they will end the Great War as one of the most profitable news enterprises in the country. . ..…

This system of tax exemptions and deductions took shape partly during World War I, when it was feared that the new income tax, with top rates as high as 77%, might choke off charitable giving. . . . ..…

In his Russian Origins of First World War, he makes trenchant argument for Great War not so much of Balkans as of the whole of Near East. ... century later we can see the force of his claim that Great War, The War of Ottoman Succession as he..…

Garrison’s abolitionism was unapologetic, and when combined with the intellectual philosophy of Thoreau produced a nonviolent alternative history to the bloodshed of the nineteenth-century Civil War. . Behind their radical leader Alice Paul, twentieth-century suffragists picketed the wartime White..…

By alliance of business interests and campaign alleging that he wanted, Van Lear was defeated after one term, driven from office Germany to win World War I. ..…

Race and Reunion, Yale David Blight describes fervor for reconciliation that began in the 1880s and lasted through the end of World War I, fueled large part by South's desire to attract industry, Northern investors desire to make money, and the desire of white people everywhere to..…

Syria has become the venue of what he calls proxy war or wars United States versus Russia Sunni theocracies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar against Shiite theocrats of Iran and Turkey versus Arab nationalists over the restoration of Turkey's pre World War I dominance. The original..…

Helen supported women's right to vote and opposed World War I. She supported Eugene Debs, who was imprisoned for his opposition to the war. ..…

During the 1920's Ku Klux Klan was present Iowa, shortly after World War I. ..…

During World War I the needs of Northern industry brought a million Negroes to the North. ... Instead the persecution and discrimination of World War I have been intensified. ..…

During the war, Hungary's right-wing government of Admiral Miklós Horthy joined Italy and Germany invading Yugoslavia, aiming to recover territories lost in World War I settlements it found committed to its sequel, the invasion of Soviet Union. ..…

By rail and tramways workers in, The product of collaborative work by Sydney's Carriageworks and City of Sydney, 1917 The Great Strike is exhibition about the historic six-week walkout New South Wales during World War I.. ... The exhibition, which runs until August 27 at..…

Costa and his allies have viewed the Great War as an opportunity to develop capitalism in Portugal’s colonies and reaffirm its centuries-old alliance with Great Britain, which has tolerated the survival of the Portuguese Empire in exchange for its near-total subordination to London. . ..…

Fear that there might soon be another European war was the reason given at a Hammersmith (London) inquest for the suicide of John James Macdonald, a 42-year-old fitters’ engineer, who gassed himself at his home—he had served in the Navy in ‘mystery’ ships during the Great War. . ..…

Joan Beaumont's historical work, Broken Nation Australia in Great War, was published February, as the political and establishment was gearing up its four-year deluge of propaganda to glorify Australian World War I.. ..…