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1917: United States
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On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war. On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days later. The United States later declared war on Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917.
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Lenin arrived in Petrograd at night April 3 (16), 1917. Workers, soldiers and sailors met him. The entire square and the streets adjoining the railway station were filled with people. With unceasing shouts of "Hurrah!" the workers lifted Lenin onto an armoured car. He concluded his short speech with the flaming words: "Long live the socialist revolution!"
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Henry Smith, who made his fortune by discovering gold in California during the Gold Rush and his future investments, signed his will in 1917 at the age of 86. With an unusual precision, he left his 35-year-old son George without the money. Smith was angry that his son was not married, did not have siblings, and was planning to join the United States Army in the battlefield in Europe during WWI, where he could be possibly killed.
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On the display stand is Lenin's manuscript—the resolution of the Party Central Committee of October 10 (23), 1917 on the armed uprising. It is stated in the resolution that an armed uprising is imminent, and the necessity of thorough preparation is emphasized. The Military-Revolutionary Committee, the organ in charge of the uprising, was founded upon the proposal of the Party's Central Committee at the Petrograd Soviet, and on October 16 (29), at a plenary session of the Party's Central Committee a Military-Revolutionary Centre of the Party's Central Committee was elected, becoming the main body of the Military-Revolutionary Committee.
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