United States of America: Chapter VII World War I
World War I led to dramatic changes in the United States.American womenserved in many capacities, including agriculture, factory and munitions work, the medical field, and non-combat roles in the Army, Navy, and Marines. The expanded role of women in the American workforce during the war was...
The outbreak of Spanish flu during World War I infected about one-third of the Earth's population, causing at least 50 million deaths, including more than a half-million in the United States, where news reports on the epidemic were prohibited ...
The United States wanted to stay neutral in World War I until British ships carrying American passengers sank. Learn the overview of the official position of the US, their isolation as tension built up, and their intervention as announced through the Zimmerman note. ...
World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. From the time of its occurrence until the approach of World War II in 1939, it was called simply
war, while the latter took lives, which were lost forever. There was, of course, another cause for the partiality to the British: Americans were entangled, emotionally and economically, with the British, which made a rupture of relations with them unthinkable. The United States finally went...
When the United States entered World War I, it created one of the most confident fighting machines in world history.
World War I (“The Great War”) toppled empires, created new nations, and sparked tensions that would explode across future years. On the battlefield, gruesome modern weaponry wrecked an entire generation of young men. The United States entered the conflict in 1917 and was never again the sa...
The United States before World War I was an economic superpower rivalling the much older empire-nations of Europe. The 1800s had been a period of division and conflict for the United States, but also one of industrialisation, expansion and prosperity. American economic growth in the second half...
World War I (WW I), also known as the Great War, lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. WW I was fought between the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. The main members of the Allied Powers were France, Russia, and Britain. The United States also fought on the side of ...