The World War I Document Archive
1917

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1917 Documents:

• German Discussions Concerning Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
  9 January 1917

  Imperial War Museum 1917 Timeline: Graphic | Text

  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)

  (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
  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 and Senator LaFollette Oppose U.S. Entry into the War

  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

  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 with the Sedition Act.
  

  Both were repealed in 1921, although portions remain as 18 USC 793, 794

  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 Russian

  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

  US Military Instructors Manual, 1917

  1917