1918

During 1918, Woodward Willson was made to insure that there won’t be any more wars and that the 14 points will prevent any war conflict. Before that in 1823, James Monroe made the Monroe Doctrine, James made the Monroe Doctrine because they wanted the U.S and the Europeans to be completely separated from each other. Next, this American Foreign Policy paper will be talking about which policy is better out of the two, Wilson's 14 Points or Monroe Doctrine. The greatest policy is the Wilson's 14…

Today we are talking about the Espionage and Sedition acts, the issuing of the Executive Order 9066 of relocating Japanese Americans, and the USA Patriot Act. These 3 events all took place in the USA. World War I a very hectic war, during that war 2 acts were passed, the Espionage Act and the Sedition act. The Espionage Act was became law June 1917, this law ment if you were to say anything bad about the Military or president or on how the government stinks, then you would be arrested or put to…

annual income of $50,000 (United States Census Year 1860). With his business firmly established in Rochester, Moses expanded the company in 1862 with a factory and office in New York City located at 10 Spruce Street (U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918). The years that followed showed that Moses amassed a small fortune from the sale of patent medicines as indicated by the increase in the number of newspaper advertisements for “Sir James Clarke’s Female Pills.” The variety of the newspaper…

Robert Graves was a soldier in World War I; after the war, he became a full time author, critic, and poet. He was born into an upper middle class family near London, United Kingdom in 1895. His father, Alfred Graves, a scholar and poet, and his mother, Amalie von Ranke Graves, a strongly religious woman, were great influences to him. He was a superior student, and received a scholarship to attend a charter school at the age of 12. When he graduated high school in 1913, he was awarded a…

An instrumental figure in the United States’s transition from an isolated economic power to a world power, Wilson’s legacy as a whole cannot be overlooked. Woodrow Wilson dedicated his political career to spreading America’s democratic ideals and institutions to parts the world over, and advocated on the behalf of a great many people still trapped in the oppressive confines of an obsolete world order. Wilson envisioned a larger role for the United States that went beyond mere economics, and…

He quit his job as a newspaper seller and a coal transporter and began concentration full-time on his cornet, playing in bars, parties, dances and funeral marches. In 1918, he married Daisy parker who was also a prostitute, this led into many arguments and fights, soon ending in divorce. He adopted a three year old boy named Clarence, Clarence’s mother, Louis’s cousin, had unfortunately died in childbirth. Clarence, was then taken care of for the rest of his life by Louis.…

Phi Theta Kappa was founded in 1918 and is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious honor society serving two-year colleges worldwide. I was recently extended an invitation to become a member of the Alpha Xi Iota Chapter due to the time spent so far earning my associates degree and my cumulative 4.0 GPA. I had never considered joining an organization like this but after some research I think this could certainly benefit my future both professionally and personally. Phi Theta Kappa’s mission is…

Lise became the first woman to be the head of the physics department in Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. Hahn and Meitner worked together intently, examining radioactivity, with her insight of physics and his insight in chemistry. In 1918, they had both discovered the science element, protactinium. In 1923, Meitner found the radiation less progress known as the Auger impact, which is named for Pierre Victor Auger, a French researcher who found out the results two years after the…

World War I. Some say that Willet would be disturbed to know that Britain’s wartime enemy followed his initiative instead of his homeland. In the United States DST has been both blamed and credited over the years. It was first implemented in March, 1918 as a wartime measure. However, from the first national appeal in 1919 through 1966, America was neck high in “a chaos of the clocks.” The ability to make the clock switch at any day of the year by local governments caused considerable amounts of…

Leon Trotsky was a crucial figure in the seizure of Bolshevik power in the 1917 revolution, introducing the principles of Marxism to the world. Michael Lynch acclaims that, “Trotsky’s single greatest practical achievement remains his organisation of the October Revolution.” Trotsky was fundamentally responsible for the planning of the November revolution in 1917. He managed to persuade to Lenin that the coup be postponed until the Second Congress of All Russian Soviets on the 8th November.…