1917 Documents

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• German Discussions Concerning Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

9 January 1917

• The Zimmerman Note - English translation
• The Zimmerman Note - Decoded German Text

16 January 1917

• Address of the President of the United States to the Senate

22 January 1917

Appealing to Europeans for "peace without victory"

• Inaugural Address of President Wilson

4 March 1917

At the beginning of his second term in office

• The Abdication of Nicholas II

15 March 1917 (2 March in the Julian calendar)

(Russian facsimile and transcription)

• The Abdication of Nicholas II

15 March 1917 (2 March in the Julian calendar)

(English translation)

• Announcement of the First Provisional Government

16 March 1917 (3 March in the Julian calendar)

• Grand Duke Mikhail's Manifesto

16 March 1917 (3 March in the Julian calendar)

• Telegram from the American Consulate in Sweden to the U.S. Secretary of State

17 March 1917

Forwarding concerns about the Russian revolutionary movement

• The Proclamation of Baghdad
  by Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude

19 March 1917

• Telegram from the American Consulate General in Petrograd to the U.S. Secretary of State

20 March 1917

Describing local conditions and popular sentiment in Petrograd

• Telegram from the American Consulate General in Moscow to the U.S. Secretary of State

20 March 1917

Describing local conditions and popular sentiment in Moscow

• Lansing's Memorandum of the US Cabinet Meeting

20 March 1917

• Wilson's War Message to Congress

2 April 1917

Asking Congress for a declaration of war

• Senator Norris Opposes U.S. Entry into the War

4 April 1917

• Senators Norris and Lafollette Oppose Wilson's War Message

4 - 5 April 1917

• Formal U.S. Declaration of War

6 April 1917

• "Do Your Bit for America

15 April 1917

President Wilson's appeal to the American public

• First Battle of the Scarpe (Capture of Vimy Ridge)

A collection of various documents, records, and maps.

9 - 14 April 1917

• V. I. Lenin, The April Theses

April 1917

Calling for Soviet control of the Russian state

• Sir Douglas Haig's Hindenburg Line Despatch

31 May 1917

• U.S. Espionage Act

15 June 1917

The act was amended in May 1918 as the Sedition Act and subsequently repealed in 1921.

• The Reichstag Peace Resolution

19 July 1917

Ignored by the High Command

• Pope Benedict XV's Peace Proposal

1 August 1917

Ignored by virtually all

• The 27 Articles of T.E. Lawrence

20 August 1917

• The Joint Socialist Statement on the Refusal of Passports to Stockholm

9 September 1917

• Lenin's Call to Power

24 October 1917

Urging that power be seized from the Provisional Government(leading immediately to the October Revolution)

• Lenin's Decree on Peace

26 October 1917

Encouraging a widening of the Socialist revolution beyond Russia

• Militarism

(1906 monograph by Karl Liebknecht)

First American printing of the English translation: October, 1917

• The Balfour Declaration

2 November 1917

British approval for a Jewish homeland in Palestine

• The Bolshevik Coup d'Etat in Russia

As documented in telegrams by Yale's Avalon Project.

7 - 22 November 1917

• The Truce of Focsani Between Roumania and the Central Powers

9 December 1917

Note: This is a description, not the text itself.)

• The Fall of Jerusalem

December 1917

The Ottoman surrender Jerusalem to British control

• Soviet Recognition of Finnish Independence

18 December 1917

• Soviet Recognition of the Republic of Finland

Also available in English translation

18 - 23 December 1917

• Sir Douglas Haig's Despatch on the 1917 Campaigns

25 December 1917

• Propaganda Leaflets

1915 - 1918

• Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches as British Commander-in-Chief

1916 - 1919

• History of Intelligence (B), British Expeditionary Force in France

January 1917 - April 1919

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