The Book of History: The events of 1916 ... 1917 and summaryGrolier society, 1920 A profusely illustrated summary of world history from an Euro-centric view but in great detail up to the end of World War II. |
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... gained followers . For a short time the navy of the United States was second in strength , but it had lost this position in 1914. Until the Spanish War the tiny regular army was hardly large enough for defense . against the Indians ...
... gained followers . For a short time the navy of the United States was second in strength , but it had lost this position in 1914. Until the Spanish War the tiny regular army was hardly large enough for defense . against the Indians ...
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... gained it - against the Russians and in the Balkans . But decision was lacking , and that only could be attained in the west , and in the west it was sought by the two general staffs . General von Falken- hayn in his book " The German ...
... gained it - against the Russians and in the Balkans . But decision was lacking , and that only could be attained in the west , and in the west it was sought by the two general staffs . General von Falken- hayn in his book " The German ...
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... gained , the enemy's strategic positions on the Western Front , as well as the tactical situation of his troops in the St. Mihiel salient would have been materially improved . There were other reasons : Verdun was only a short distance ...
... gained , the enemy's strategic positions on the Western Front , as well as the tactical situation of his troops in the St. Mihiel salient would have been materially improved . There were other reasons : Verdun was only a short distance ...
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... gained more than forty - eight hours in which to organize the works on and round Dead Man Hill in the way he wanted . This impor- tant advanced position had now become safe for the cru- cial time at least . scattered by a bayonet charge ...
... gained more than forty - eight hours in which to organize the works on and round Dead Man Hill in the way he wanted . This impor- tant advanced position had now become safe for the cru- cial time at least . scattered by a bayonet charge ...
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... gained little more than on the first days in February . On the right bank of the Meuse it had reached the last line of the defenses of Verdun , on the left bank it had destroyed the whole of the first line on the Forges , but had failed ...
... gained little more than on the first days in February . On the right bank of the Meuse it had reached the last line of the defenses of Verdun , on the left bank it had destroyed the whole of the first line on the Forges , but had failed ...
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Страница 739 - It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for...
Страница 738 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
Страница 737 - With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States...
Страница 737 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Страница 730 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world : that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Страница 728 - Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory, upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last...
Страница 738 - While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear, and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not believe that the thought of the nation has been altered or clouded by them.
Страница 736 - The Senate of the United States is the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action. A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Страница 726 - Government that it cannot for a moment entertain, much less discuss, a suggestion that respect by German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way or in the slightest degree be made contingent upon the conduct of any other Government affecting the rights of neutrals and noncombatants. Responsibility in such matters is single, not joint; absolute, not relative.
Страница 734 - If this attempt is not successful we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico : That we shall make war together and together make peace. We shall give general financial support, and it is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona.