Today in
World War I History
World War I History
1916 - U.S. President Wilson address the U.S. Congress. He said that the U.S. should break diplomatic relations with Germany if they did not stop attacking merchant ships with its submarines.
1919 - At the Paris peace conference, negotiations began over Italy's claims to territory in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
| "The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit." - President Woodrow Wilson |
