1917 Documents

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• German Discussions Concerning Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
  </dd>9 January 1917
• The Zimmerman Note
  </dd>19 January 1917
• Address of the President of the United States to the Senate
  </dd>22 January 1917
  </dd>Appealing to Europeans for "peace without victory"
• Inaugural Address of President Wilson
  </dd>4 March 1917
  </dd>At the beginning of his second term in office
• The Abdication of Nicholas II
  </dd>15 March 1917 (2 March in the Julian calendar)
  </dd>(Russian facsimile and transcription)
• The Abdication of Nicholas II
  </dd>15 March 1917 (2 March in the Julian calendar)
  </dd>(English translation)
• Announcement of the First Provisional Government
  </dd>16 March 1917 (3 March in the Julian calendar)
• Grand Duke Mikhail's Manifesto
  </dd>16 March 1917 (3 March in the Julian calendar)
• Telegram from the American Consulate in Sweden to the U.S. Secretary of State
  </dd>17 March 1917
  </dd>Forwarding concerns about the Russian revolutionary movement
• The Proclamation of Baghdad
  by Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude
  
  </dd>19 March 1917
• Telegram from the American Consulate General in Petrograd
  to the U.S. Secretary of State
  </dd>20 March 1917
  </dd>Describing local conditions and popular sentiment in Petrograd
• Telegram from the American Consulate General in Moscow
  to the U.S. Secretary of State
  </dd>20 March 1917
  </dd>Describing local conditions and popular sentiment in Moscow
• Lansing's Memorandum of the US Cabinet Meeting
  </dd>20 March 1917
• Wilson's War Message to Congress
  </dd>2 April 1917
  </dd>Asking Congress for a declaration of war
• Senator Norris Opposes U.S. Entry into the War
  </dd>4 April 1917
• Senators Norris and Lafollette Oppose Wilson's War Message
  </dd>4 - 5 April 1917
• Formal U.S. Declaration of War
  </dd>6 April 1917
• "Do Your Bit for America
  </dd>15 April 1917
  </dd>President Wilson's appeal to the American public
• First Battle of the Scarpe (Capture of Vimy Ridge)
  </dd>A collection of various documents, records, and maps.
  </dd>9 - 14 April 1917
• V. I. Lenin, The April Theses
  </dd>April 1917
  </dd>Calling for Soviet control of the Russian state
• Sir Douglas Haig's Hindenburg Line Despatch
  </dd>31 May 1917
• U.S. Espionage Act
  </dd>15 June 1917
  </dd>The act was amended in May 1918 as the Sedition Act and subsequently repealed in 1921.
• The Reichstag Peace Resolution
  </dd>19 July 1917
  </dd>Ignored by the High Command
• Pope Benedict XV's Peace Proposal
  </dd>1 August 1917
  </dd>Ignored by virtually all
• The 27 Articles of T.E. Lawrence
  </dd>20 August 1917
• The Joint Socialist Statement on the Refusal of Passports to Stockholm
  </dd>9 September 1917
• Lenin's Call to Power
  </dd>24 October 1917
  </dd>Urging that power be seized from the Provisional Government
  </dd>(Leading immediately to the October Revolution)
• Lenin's Decree on Peace
  </dd>26 October 1917
  </dd>Encouraging a widening of the Socialist revolution beyond Russia
• Militarism
  </dd> (1906 monograph by Karl Liebknecht)
  </dd>First American printing of the English translation: October, 1917
• The Balfour Declaration
  </dd>2 November 1917
  </dd>British approval for a Jewish homeland in Palestine
• The Bolshevik Coup d'Etat in Russia
  </dd> As documented in telegrams by Yale's Avalon Project.
  </dd>7 - 22 November 1917
• The Truce of Focsani Between Roumania and the Central Powers
  </dd>9 December 1917
  </dd>(Note: This is a description, not the text itself.)
• The Fall of Jerusalem
  </dd>December 1917
  </dd>The Ottoman surrender Jerusalem to British control
• Soviet Recognition of Finnish Independence
  </dd>18 December 1917
• Soviet Recognition of the Republic of Finland
  </dd>Alsoavailable in English translation
  </dd>18 - 23 December 1917
• Sir Douglas Haig's Despatch on the 1917 Campaigns
  </dd>25 December 1917
• Propaganda Leaflets
  </dd>1915 - 1918
• Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches as British Commander-in-Chief
  </dd>1916 - 1919
• History of Intelligence (B), British Expeditionary Force in France
  </dd>January 1917 - April 1919

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