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Published: 27 July 2021
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Published: 27 July 2021
... “Eddie ” Russel Edgar Taylor Harry Williams Clarence C Young Hugh Fowke G H Pershing France American Expeditionary Forces Baker Woodrow Wilson Joffre Haig British Expeditionary Forces Patton Resco Roosevelt Balfour Mission Red Cross Artillery Aviation selectiver service World War I...
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Published: 12 November 2020
...World War I represented a troubling predicament for suffragists. This chapter explores the ways Kentucky suffragists managed to “sneak in a little suffrage” even as they committed themselves fully to supporting American war aims. Fitzgerald Dorothy Kentucky Derby Lexington KY male woman suffrage...
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Published: 15 December 2015
... William Torrey public education Vanderlip Frank Gienow Hecht Jessica Holst Hermann von Prince John Trommler Frank World War I Flanagan Jason Lusitania British ship submarine warfare Wilson Woodrow Sussex British ship Zimmermann telegram American Friends of the German Republic Committee...
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Published: 08 March 2011
... and war responsibility Burián Stephan France and war responsibility Francis Joseph emperor of Austria king of Hungary Germany leadership and governance of Italy joins Allies Russia as part of Allies Verdun battle of 1916 12 Wilhelm II Kaiser of Germany nature of leadership World War I European...
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Published: 08 March 2011
... of nations as concept Roosevelt on international police Woodward David R World War I European campaigns outbreak of war Cooper John Milton Jr on Bryan’s moralism Gregory Ross on Wilson and Allied blockade loans to belligerents Bryan blocks United States Army overall strengths and weaknesses 1914–15...
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Published: 14 March 2014
... Hopkinsville Kentucky Owensboro Kentucky Biddle Anthony J “Tony” Drexel Medal of Honor Philippines the Pike County Pennsylvania preparedness movement World War I Roosevelt Theodore Wood Leonard Breckinridge James Carson Maxim Hudson Philadelphia Military Training Camp Drum Andrew Ellis Earl “Pete...
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Published: 29 October 2009
...The Balkan Wars resulted in huge military casualties, and in military terms, were the precursor of World War I. Mass mobilization, large turning movements, and trench warfare all occurred during the conflict. New weapons, such as airplanes and rapid-fire artillery, were utilized. However, few...
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Published: 29 October 2009
.... The Bulgarians and Ottomans drew on the strength of the Central Powers. These eastern European battlefields exhausted both sides. In doing so, they hindered the accumulation of military capacities on the western front for a decisive battle. In the east, during the first phase of World War I, there was no victory...
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Published: 29 October 2009
...The origins of American intervention in World War I lay in the naval struggle that had been an important factor in precipitating the war and began in earnest at the outbreak of war. The British-imposed blockade on Germany to strangle its industrial economy and German attempts to break the blockade...
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Published: 29 October 2009
...International conflict throughout twentieth-century Europe can be divided into three parts. The first phase began with the Balkan Wars in 1912, extended through to the end of World War I, and lasted until 1921 in Europe. The Paris peace settlement proved to be fragile, and after a brief respite...
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Published: 14 February 2011
...During the early 1970s, black southerners achieved certain significant gains outside the classroom. As a result of the integration of public facilities, many moved to the regions which saw these gains and this reversed the outmigration that occurred during the World War I era. African Americans...
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Published: 22 March 2019
... Philadelphia Potomac River Underwood Oscar United States Aeronautic Advance Base Barnett George Benson William Daniels Josephus Day Karl Marine Corps Gazette US Army Signal Corps Batts W H Boynton Allen Chamberlain Edmund Davey Brock Marine Aeronautic Company Philadelphia Model E World War I...
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Published: 24 March 2016
...Chapter 5 examines the breakdown of German operational thinking in the face of the harsh realities of World War I. In the first weeks of the war, Schlieffen’s and Moltke’s plans for an annihilating, decisive victory on the Western front failed as the Germans were repulsed at the Battle of the Marne...
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Published: 09 June 2021
...This chapter encompasses the World War I years. Special attention is given to the company's role in the development of the feature film and creation of a distribution network to handle such longer productions, the relocation of Vitagraph's Los Angeles studio to Hollywood, the War's adverse impact...
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Published: 22 August 2019
... is also introduced and his push for an assignment with the American Expeditionary Force in World War I. Without his experience in Mexico and in World War I, Patton would have developed into a commander much different from the one that is celebrated for his performance in World War II. Blumenson Martin...
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Published: 22 August 2019
... “Gold V” award Ayer Ellie Brett Sereno E Herman Earnest Viner Joseph Compton Ranulf 1st 304th Tank Brigade La Favre French major Patton George S Sr 327th 345th Tank Battalion 326th 344th Tank Battalion Weed Newell P World War I Army General Staff College Baldwin Ellis Barnard Courtney H...
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Published: 15 March 2014
... League into the Lincoln League of America, an influential black political organization during the World War I era. The political efforts of black Memphians culminated in 1927 when they, including Church's protégé George W. Lee, mobilized to vote the incumbent mayor out of office and elect a candidate who...
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Published: 20 March 2009
.... The book focuses mainly on coming up with a better understanding of what both the black and white World War I-era South Carolina reformers expected since the whites originally dominated, particularly during the period between 1914 and 1924. white supremacy agriculture black reformers federal government...
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Published: 11 May 2007
... its isolationist stance in international conflicts, particularly during its formative years in the early nineteenth century, toward one that had the US more actively involved in keeping the balance of power during World Wars I and II and during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Today's geopolitical...