The World War I Document Archive, 1917
The World War I Document Archive
1917
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1917 Documents:
German Discussions Concerning Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
9 January 1917
The Zimmerman Note
19 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and subsequently repealed in 1921.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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Last Updated: May 2005