History of the World War, Volume Four, Simonds F.H., 1919

History of the World War, Volume Four, Simonds F.H., 1919.

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Between January, 1917, and March, 1918, that is, between the failure of the first German peace offensive in the west and the promulgation of the treaties of Brest-Litovsk and Bukharest in the east, the old Triple Entente of France, Great Britain, and Russia — which had in 1915 been reinforced by Italy — suffered disastrous defeat. While British, French, and Italian armies were checked or routed in the field, Russia collapsed and quit the war and her allies, and, but for the entrance of the United States into the struggle in April, 1917, before Russia had yet vanished, Germany would have won a measurable if not a decisive victory. She would at the very least have been able to preserve Mittel-Europa and the mastery of the East.




THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE WAR.
On January 31, 1917, the German Ambassador at Washington presented to the United States Government formal notification that the Imperial German Government purposed on the following day to begin a ruthless submarine warfare directed against all ships — neutral and belligerent alike — found in European waters. On February 3rd, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Germany, recalling its own ambassador from Berlin and presenting the German Ambassador in Washington with his passports. A little more than two months later, on April 6th, Congress declared that a state of war existed between the United States and the Imperial German Government.

We have now briefly to review the steps by which the United States, remote from the scene of the European struggle, its neutrality fortified alike by its oldest tradition and by the most earnest desire of the majority of its people, was dragged into a world war by a series of aggressions and injuries unparalleled in history. Such an examination necessarily divides itself into three distinct phases. It is essential to review the state of American feeling with respect to the European conflict from the outset to the moment when we entered the war; the progress of events themselves; and the meaning of American entrance immediate and eventual in view of the situation that then existed in Europe.

Contents.
CHAPTER I THE FOURTH PHASE.
CHAPTER II THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE WAR.
CHAPTER III THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS.
CHAPTER IV THE GREAT RETREAT.
CHAPTER V THE BATTLE OF ARRAS—BAGDAD.
CHAPTER VI THE FRENCH OFFENSIVE.
CHAPTER VII ITALY AND GREECE.
CHAPTER VIII THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.
CHAPTER IX THE SUBMARINE.
CHAPTER X THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES—PASSCHENDAELE.
CHAPTER XI CAMBRAI—JERUSALEM.
CHAPTER XII CAPORETTO—AND PETAIN’S ACHIEVEMENT.
CHAPTER XIII POLITICAL EVENTS.
CHAPTER XIV BREST-LITOVSK—CONCLUSION.



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