Talk:US History/World War I

Zimmerman Telegraph?

Russian Revolution -- Aye or Nay?
May I take out the section on the Russian Revolution? I mention it parenthetically above, and it has little bearing in a book about American history. Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 18:20, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

The Palmer Raids & the Race Riots of 1919
They ought to be in here, not only as reactions to the War & overseas events, but because they explain a lot about the later period. Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 20:09, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Something from an earlier section to be pertinent here
An influx of unskilled black strikebreakers into East St Louis, Illinois, heightened racial tensions in 1917. Rumors that blacks were arming themselves for an attack on whites resulted in numerous attacks by white mobs on black neighborhoods. On July 1, blacks fired back at a car whose occupants they believed had shot into their homes and mistakenly killed two policemen riding in a car. The next day, a full scale riot erupted which ended only after nine whites and 39 blacks had been killed and over three hundred buildings were destroyed.

Added to main text Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 12:54, 18 October 2014 (UTC)