How many American soldiers who served in the Vietnam war were drafted? How many soldiers fought in the Battle of the Somme? How many soldiers died in the Mexican-American War? How many Australian soldiers fought in the Battle of Passchendaele?
When war first broke out in Europe in 1914 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the chain reaction of events which the assassination triggered, the USA maintained a position of neutrality. Many of the American people saw the war as a conflict that had ...
To remedy this, James Madison immediately drafted a list of rights for citizens that the federal government did not have the power to take away. Included in this Bill of Rights were freedom of religion, speech and of the press, the right to bear arms, the right to a trial by jury and...
The CCC comprised existing government departments, including the Army, administering voluntary camps that provided more than 3 million men with manual labor jobs, mainly in natural resource conservation. Many Army officers benefitted from overseeing the camps, not otherwise having the opportunity to ...
6, 1922. The document, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, was drafted to prevent an arms race following World War I. [Pictured: American Legion Weekly highlighting the plight of unemployed American veterans in 1922] 1923: Warlordism Public Domain 1923: Warlordism - Army strength: 133,243...
Arthur Porter was in a federally recognized National Guard unit Robert Pratt and Wilfred Ratliff were drafted William Petruzzi was a commissioned officer. (We also knew that from him being listed as a 2 Lt. But if his rank hadn’t been listed, we would have discovered he was a commissioned...
Too many to list here, there are otherFirst World Warrecords held at LAC, as well as external sources of information that can provide valuable additional details about WWI soldiers and the various CEF units serving overseas in France and Flanders. ...
Possible Causes for the Cold WarAlthough The U.S. and Soviet Union were allies during WWII, there were many tensions early on and once the common threat of Germany and Japan were removed, it was only a matter of time for the shaky relationship to fall apart. Here are some possible factor...