1918

friends; this is the story of a seventeen month long period of fear, anguish, and death. A period of time when people were scared to sleep at night. This is the story of The Unknown Axeman of New Orleans. Crime Rundown During the morning of May 23rd, 1918, Brothers Jake and Andrew Maggio would wake and prepare their day like they normally would. It seemed like a typical day for the two. The only difference being that their brother Joseph and his wife Catherine weren’t awake. They proceed to…

the command structure of the white armies also varied some were veterans from world war one some were just volunteers. In Mid 1918 anti-Bolshevik militias and military units were formed in piecemeal fashion prompted by the uprising of the Czech legion. Together they became known as the whites the implication was that the Russian white army were monarchist.…

In May 1918, 10,000 British soldiers were sick, preventing them from fighting. July 1918, Flu disappeared only to reappear in the fall. During September, Boston received the epidemic. By this time, the disease had morphed. The disease, at first, lasted 3 days with a low mortality rate, the return brought…

Vickie Lee Roach, an Aboriginal woman, was sentenced to a six year term of imprisonment, having been convicted on five counts of offences which included burglary, conduct endangering persons and negligently causing serious injury. The Electoral Act (1918) provided that only prisoners serving a sentence of 3 or more years were disqualified from voting, however, the amendment to the Act came in 2006, where the Commonwealth Parliament enforced a complete ban on any prisoner voting. Roach sued the…

Offensive included many battles that led to Germany’s demise. The Hundred Days Offensive was a series of successful Allied battles that would eventually end World War I. The Hundred Days Offensive started with the Battle of Amiens in August 8, 1918. The Battle of Amiens was a huge success for the Allied Powers. The Germans had over 30,000 casualties while the Allied Power on had about 6,000. After the Amiens decisive victory, a general named Haig from Britain, decided to continue the…

but occasionally the fleet set sail. He would steam northward to San Francisco and, after refueling, sail southward again to San Diego. There simply was no combative activity in coastal waters. But that did not mean there was no fighting. In early 1918, in Coronado, California, two sailors squared off in the recreation center, which also served as the mess hall. They entered the makeshift boxing ring to determine which among them was the best boxer in the Pacific Fleet. This match bore no…

British women during 1918 due to the high demand of products (Sundari Anitha, World War I: 1914-1918, 2013). Conscription in 1916 created a need for more women in the workforce to fill these essential roles. This opening of job opportunities led to women working in areas that were generally left for men such as ‘railway guards and ticket collectors, buses and tram conductors, postal workers, police, firefighters and as bank ‘tellers’ and clerks’ (Sundari Anitha, World War I: 1914-1918, 2013).…

In 1918, the worst epidemic in United States history occurred and forced medical researchers to doubt all of their previous advances in medicine. Doctors were able to determine that it was some strand of influenza, but deadlier and spreading quicker than any virus they had ever seen before. This disease was later incorrectly labeled the Spanish Influenza and continued to puzzle doctors and researchers for close to the rest of the century. The “Closing in on a Killer: Scientists Unlock Clues to…

The NSDAP was shaped out of smaller groups in late 1917-1918. In 1918, Anton Drexler, a German nationalist created a new division of this league in Munich. Drexler trailed the views of several military nationalists of that time, some interpretations involved opposing the Treaty of Versailles, having anti-Semitic, and anti-Marxist outlooks. They all had a knowledge of trusting in the power of Germans which various nationalists appealed to be part of the Aryan master race. He also faulted…

the British, French and American troops forged toward the German border, the alliance between the Central Powers began to crumble. Turkey signed an agreement at the end of October, Austria-Hungary followed on November 3rd, 1918. Germany formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all countries involved in the conflict agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war. The…