WW1 All parts sort of
Category: Outro
Atualizado: 14 fev 2024
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Created byDominic Jaramillo
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The USA enters world war oneColorado troops enters first hand combatFour days before our President delivered his historic addressDenver's first libtery loanPresident Woodrow Wilson won a second term in 1916 by promising to keep the nation out of World War IWilson had to convince the nine million people who’d voted for him that combat was necessary
April 6, 1917Leo was in a dugout, awaiting orders to go on outpost duty when a large shell made a direct hit on the dugout, killing him. Leo T. Leyden was the first Denver soldier to die.Creede, a small mining town, celebrated U.S. entry with a simulated 21-gun salute using 400 pounds of dynamite to make big bangsWorld War one endedEurope stumbled into war in late July and early August 1914Helen Ring Robinson, the first woman elected to the Colorado State Senate—to sail to Europe with him and other prominent peace advocates. Their mission failed early in 1916Lowry Field (later Lowry Air Force Base) was named for Lt. Francis Brown Lowry of Denver, an aerial photographer who was shot down over France in September 1918William T. Fitzsimons, a Kansan who was the first American medical officer to die in the warheir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire—was shot to death along with his wife, Sophie, by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914On August 4, 1914, German troops crossed the border into Belgium. In the first battle of World War I
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