On this day in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I. In his address to Congress that day, Wilson lamented it is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war. Four days later, Congress obliged and declared war on Germany.
In February and March 1917, Germany, embroiled in war with Britain, France and Russia, increased its attacks on neutral shipping in the Atlantic and offered, in the form of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if it would join Germany in a war against the United States. The public outcry against Germany buoyed President Wilson in asking Congress to abandon America’s neutrality to make the world safe for democracy.
Wilson went on to lead what was at the time the largest war-mobilization effort in the country’s history. At first, Wilson asked only for volunteer soldiers, but soon realized voluntary enlistment would not raise a sufficient number of troops and signed the Selective Service Act in May 1917. The Selective Service Act required men between 21 and 35 years of age to register for the draft, increasing the size of the army from 200,000 troops to 4 million by the end of the war. One of the infantrymen who volunteered for active duty was future President Harry S. Truman.
false as the head of state (president) organizes the army
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After being affected by the siege of Caffa, the Black Death spread to Palestine and Syria in 1348 and to Arabian peninsula, reaching Mecca.
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B. Create federal laws to punish the hideous act of lynching.
C. More attention to education.
D. Minimum wages for women workers.
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Calvin Coolidge was the 30th american president and served from 1923 to 1929, in his first speech to congress he set as his government goals to create federal acts to punish Lynching, which is when a group of people kill someone with premeditation based on racial, economic or religious beliefs, he also wanted to pay more attention to education, and set a minumin wage for women workers because they were being underpaid.
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Yes it was. The railroad was suposte to cross from Cape to Cairo. Cecil John Rhodes prefered the railroad to pass through the Easter part of Africa. And this part was known as German East Africa what is nowadays modern-day Tanzania before becoming a british protectorate.
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