turned against Germany. The American government let the Germans know that you either stop unrestricted submarine warfare or we will break relations with you completely. The Germans accept the demand. Germany stopped unrestricted warfare. In January of 1917 the British intercepted a telegram sent from Germany to Mexico titled the Zimmerman telegram. The telegram proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States that would lead to the return of lost Mexican land to Mexico. The telegraph
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work of a monarch he found intolerably boring. He could not stand listening long or seriously to ministers’ reports‚ or reading them.” Written by Kerensky in 1934. Kerensky was the leader of the government which took over when the Tsar abdicated in 1917. Source 3: “Nicholas II was not fit to run a village post office.” Said by an unknown cabinet minister Source 4: “He never had an opinion of his own … always agreeing with the judgement of the last person he spoke to.” By Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich
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Georges ‘Tiger’ Clemenceau was Prime Minister and French Statesman from 1906-1909 and 1917-1919. The Tiger was born to a political activist‚ and noted atheist‚ in 1841. His father instilled in him many beliefs‚ such as‚ hatred of Catholicism and radical political beliefs.1 Clemenceau came from a long line of physicians and was a physician himself. Clemenceau played a key role in the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Georges Clemenceau was the senior French representative at the Versailles settlement
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end all war. The war impacted us in many ways than one. The United States was completely unprepared‚ so we created a Industry board on July 1917. What the industry board needed was to produce and to price. The impact on the United States was mobilization which was meant to get Americans ready to fight using volunteering‚ that is the selective service act of 1917. We needed to get money and that was through liberty bonds that were sold to the public and also taxes were raised. They raised over $10 billion
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approximately 20 million military and civilian deaths. The Entente Powers‚ led by France‚ Russia‚ the British Empire‚ and later Italy (from 1915)‚ and the United States (from 1917)‚ defeated the Central Powers‚ led by the Austro-Hungarian‚ German‚ and Ottoman Empires. Russia withdrew from the war after its revolution in 1917. The fighting that took place along the Western Front occurred along a system of trenches‚ breastworks‚ and fortifications separated by an area known as no man’s land. These
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Time: Sadler Commission was formed in the year 1917 under the presidentship of Dr. Michael E. Sadler‚ the Vice Chancellor of the university of Leeds. It is also known as Calcutta University Commission of 1917. Object: The main objective of the Commission was ’to inquire into the condition and prospects of the University of Calcutta and to consider the question of a constructive policy in relation to the question it presented’. Besides the Commission was to determine the ideals and standard of
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Mary McAuley sets out to describe the failure of communism in Russia and its sudden collapse in 1989-91. The Russian political experiment failed due to the following reasons‚ Communist theory assumes that all humans are basically good‚ well-motivated‚ and possess equal capabilities and motivation. This simply isn’t so‚ and Communism never found any way to overcome the problems this assumption caused. The failure of communism is due to human nature. Power corrupts. If Stalin was not corrupted by his
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World War broke out he enlisted and was sent as an officer to England. In September 1915‚ he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and was sent to France (“William Avery Bishop”). The following year‚ he successfully completed pilot training and‚ in 1917‚ he joined 60 Squadron at the front lines in France. He soon became a successful Ace Fighter Pilot (Greenhous). In March 1918‚ he was then promoted to the commander of the No. 85 Squadron and only four months later he became a lieutenant colonel. In
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for assistance from the U.S.‚ and mentalities in the US were gradually moving towards war. The British gave the U.S. the decoded telegram on February 24‚ 1917 and on April 6‚ 1917 the U.S. formally announced war against Germany and its
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socialists and Lenin but failed. Unconsciously‚ Kornilov brought back the Bolshevicks on the scene of the Russian Revolution. The picture of Kornilov‚ shows him in front of his army ready to attack Petrograde as the photograph was taken in summer 1917. He looks determined but his army looks small and quite weak compared to the Bolshevik’s troops and the Kerensky’s troops. The fact that the Bolsheviks helped Kerensky only restored the Bolsheviks as patriots in the eyes of the Russians and enabled
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