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JFK Wrote in 1939 That Palestine Was Hardly Britain's to Give Away In July 1939, John F. Kennedy, then a 22-year-old Harvard student, visited Palestine during a trip arranged b...
The Arab Revolt in Palestine was a nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs against British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration under the British Mandate, which followed the 1917 B...
Murder of the Romanovs On July 17, 1918, the last Russian Emperor, Nicholas II, along with his wife Alexandra, their five children, and four loyal attendants, were executed by Bolshevik ...
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued on November 2 1917 by the British government during World War I expressing support for the establishment of a national home for the J...
The Battles of the Isonzo were a series of twelve military engagements between the Kingdom of Italy and Austria-Hungary during World War I. They took place along the Isonzo River, on the ...
Armenian Genocide On April 24, 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. The arrests marked the beginning of a coordi...
November 1917–March 1918 — Lenin argues that the revolutionary government cannot survive while Russia remains in the war. Other Bolsheviks object to Germany's extreme peace terms. Renewed...
6 April 1917–11 November 1918 — The United States begins converting its enormous economy and population into military power. Millions of men enter the draft system while shipping, finance...
8 March 1917 — Demonstrations, strikes and bread shortages in Petrograd begin the revolutionary crisis that destroys the imperial government. Soldiers increasingly refuse orders to suppre...
1 February 1917–11 November 1918 — German submarines attack merchant shipping in an attempt to reduce British imports below sustainable levels. Early shipping losses are extremely serious...
1917–1918 — German forces develop increasingly sophisticated methods based on short intense bombardments, assault detachments and infiltration around strongpoints. The tactics contribute ...
Late 1917–March 1918 — The collapse of Russian resistance allows Germany to move divisions from the Eastern Front toward France and Belgium. German commanders understand that the advantag...
1917–1918 — Woodrow Wilson increasingly presents American participation as part of a larger project to restructure international relations. His Fourteen Points call for diplomatic reform,...
December 1916–January 1917 — German naval and military leaders conclude that unrestricted submarine warfare may force Britain out of the war. They understand that the policy may provoke A...
1915–1917 — Commanders increasingly seek to exhaust enemy manpower, artillery and industrial capacity faster than their own side is depleted. Verdun and the Somme become famous examples o...
1915–1917 — Battlefield losses, inflation, food distribution failures and political distrust progressively weaken the Russian state. Confidence in Nicholas II collapses among elites as we...
1914–1917 Allied purchasing and finance role — J.P. Morgan & Co. becomes a major financial and purchasing intermediary for Britain and France in the United States during American neutrali...
1911–1917 — Unification or Death, commonly called the Black Hand, is a secret Serbian nationalist organization containing influential military officers. Individuals associated with this n...
7 November 1917 — Bolshevik forces overthrow Russia's Provisional Government in Petrograd. Vladimir Lenin's movement has promised peace, land and political transfer to the soviets. Ending...
1903–1917 political and intelligence influence — Dragutin Dimitrijević is a Serbian army officer, intelligence chief and leading figure associated with the Black Hand. His network reaches...
1906–1917 senior military influence — Conrad serves as chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff for most of the years preceding and during the early war. Before 1914 he repeatedly advo...
1917–1920 as French prime minister — Clemenceau leads France through the final year of the war and becomes one of the dominant figures at the Paris Peace Conference. France has suffered m...
1 February 1917 — Germany begins unrestricted submarine attacks against shipping approaching Allied-controlled waters. German naval leaders believe U-boats can reduce British imports enou...
1909–1917 — Bethmann Hollweg serves as German chancellor through the July Crisis and most of the first three years of war. He confirms Germany's strong support for Austria-Hungary and acc...
31 July 1917 — British-led forces begin the offensive later associated with Passchendaele. Heavy artillery, persistent rain and destroyed drainage systems turn parts of the battlefield in...
6 April 1917 — The United States declares war on Germany. Unrestricted submarine warfare is the immediate strategic cause, while the Zimmermann Telegram further intensifies anti-German op...
1917–1918 wartime revolutionary leadership — Lenin returns to Russia after the February Revolution and argues for transfer of power to the soviets, withdrawal from the war and socialist r...
1917–1918 — Investigate Allied economic superiority, the blockade, American intervention, German losses during the Spring Offensive, improvements in Allied tactics, shortages inside Germa...
1914–6 April 1917 — American trade and finance become increasingly connected with the Allied economies, but German submarine warfare repeatedly challenges American maritime policy. The Zi...
16 January–1 March 1917 — German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends a coded proposal instructing Germany's representative to seek Mexican cooperation if the United States enters th...
1 March 1917 — American newspapers publish the German proposal known as the Zimmermann Telegram. The message suggests a German-Mexican alliance if the United States enters the war and rai...