scholarly journals The 100th Anniversary of Fort Monmouth

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Floyd Hertweck, et al
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Military Bases ◽  
World War ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Aberdeen Proving Ground ◽  
The U.S

April 1917 marks the 100th anniversary of the American entry into World War I. The war brought many changes to NJ, to include the creation of military bases like Fort Monmouth. First called Camp Little Silver, then Camp Alfred Vail, and finally Fort Monmouth, the base stood up in June 1917. Though it was supposed to be temporary, the base remained open until September 2011. The majority of personnel stationed at the base, employed by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM), moved to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. There, the Fort Monmouth/CECOM archive is maintained to this day. In honor of what would have been the base’s 100th anniversary, we present a brief recap of the 1917 activities of the site, along with two early photographs from the archive.

The Origins of the South West Africa Dispute: The Versailles Peace Conference and the Creation of the Mandates System

1968 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 115-143
Author(s):  
S. Slonim
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
West Africa ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
World War ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
Tiered System ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
Sliding Scale ◽  
The Creation

The roots of the South West Africa dispute relate back to the events that took place at the end of World War I and led to the creation of the League of Nations mandates system. More particularly, the conflict between the United Nations and South Africa cannot be understood except by tracing the manner in which South West Africa became a part of that system. The “great compromise” hammered out by President Wilson and the Dominion ministers at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 produced a three-tiered system of mandates which reflected in a sliding scale a varied balancing of national and international interests. The result of the compromise was a divergency of interpretation that has endured to this day and in considerable measure has fostered and sustained the dispute in its present-day dimensions.

The League of Nations and the United States

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie Laderman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
International Peace ◽  
World War ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
New States ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Global Affairs

Although the League of Nations was the first permanent organization established with the purpose of maintaining international peace, it built on the work of a series of 19th-century intergovernmental institutions. The destructiveness of World War I led American and British statesmen to champion a league as a means of maintaining postwar global order. In the United States, Woodrow Wilson followed his predecessors, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, in advocating American membership of an international peace league, although Wilson’s vision for reforming global affairs was more radical. In Britain, public opinion had begun to coalesce in favor of a league from the outset of the war, though David Lloyd George and many of his Cabinet colleagues were initially skeptical of its benefits. However, Lloyd George was determined to establish an alliance with the United States and warmed to the league idea when Jan Christian Smuts presented a blueprint for an organization that served that end. The creation of the League was a predominantly British and American affair. Yet Wilson was unable to convince Americans to commit themselves to membership in the new organization. The Franco-British-dominated League enjoyed some early successes. Its high point was reached when Europe was infused with the “Spirit of Locarno” in the mid-1920s and the United States played an economically crucial, if politically constrained, role in advancing Continental peace. This tenuous basis for international order collapsed as a result of the economic chaos of the early 1930s, as the League proved incapable of containing the ambitions of revisionist powers in Europe and Asia. Despite its ultimate limitations as a peacekeeping body, recent scholarship has emphasized the League’s relative successes in stabilizing new states, safeguarding minorities, managing the evolution of colonies into notionally sovereign states, and policing transnational trafficking; in doing so, it paved the way for the creation of the United Nations.

Keepers of the Flame in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park

2020 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-85
Author(s):  
Christopher Pollock
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Golden Gate ◽  
World War ◽  
The Creation

This article explores memorials placed in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in the aftermath of World War I, with an emphasis on those of a botanical nature. Historical, general, and local inspirations behind creation of the memorials are discussed. A detailed description of the development of the park's three memorial groves follows. Context for the creation of the memorial groves is provided through discussion of related local events. Other in-park and local memorials to those who fell in World War I are also covered.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas I. Faith
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Chemical Warfare ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

This book documents the institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS), the U.S. Army organization responsible for chemical warfare, from its origins in 1917 through Amos A. Fries's departure as CWS chief in 1929. It examines the U.S. chemical warfare program as it developed before the nation began sending soldiers to fight in France during World War I; the American Expeditionary Force's experiences with poison gas on the Western Front; the CWS's struggle to continue its chemical weapons program in a hostile political environment after the war; and CWS efforts to improve its public image as well as its reputation in the military in the first half of the 1920s. The book concludes with an assessment of the CWS's successes and failures in the second half of the 1920s. Through the story of the CWS, the book shows how the autonomy of the military-industrial complex can be limited when policymakers are confronted with pervasive, hostile public opinion.

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