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America enters the First World War in Volume 12 of PowerThink’s Original Source Series. Submarine warfare, the killing of US citizens, and history as delivered in first hand accounts by the participants offer the view from America’s side of the Atlantic. Read of the preparations for war, the declarations, telegrams, the intrigue and diplomacy behind the scenes. Millions of innocent civilians and many more millions of young soldiers die in battles covering a continent and horrifying the world. Understand the set-up for an even more horrifying war to come with the defeat of Germany and her allies, and the Bolshevik Revolution, bringing Communism to a world stage. Find all this and more in AMERICA - WAR & PEACE 1917-1925, Volume 12 of the Original Source Series by PowerThink Publishing. Included Works: • The Zimmermann Telegram, 1917 by From the German Foreign Secretary to the German Minister in Mexico • America Declares War on Germany, 1917 by Woodrow Wilson • Text of the Declaration of War by Joint Resolution Passed by the United States Senate and House of Representatives • Britain Welcomes America into the War by David Lloyd George • Compulsory Military Service by Woodrow Wilson • Conscription is Approved by Samuel Gompers • Moving Our Troops Overseas by Albert Gleaves • "On the Brink of the Precipice" by Walter H. Page • America Mobilizes by John Pershing • The American's Creed by Accepted by House of Representatives, April 3, 1918 • President Wilson's "Fourteen Points", 1918 by Woodrow Wilson • The "Big Berthas" Bombard Paris by Contemporary Press Report and That of General Rohne • Foch Given the Supreme Command by John J. Pershing • Britain's Back to the Wall by Sir Douglas Haig • The Liberty Loan ArmyGuy Emerson • American Troops Take Cantigny by John J. Pershing • The Loss of the "President Lincoln" by G. C. Whimsett • Airplane Duels by Edward Vernon (Eddie) Rickenbacker • Holding the Germans at Chateau-Thierry by British Press Report and a French Tribute • The