This decade was dominated by the first “total war”—World War I. It also saw other huge changes during the Russian Revolution and the beginning of Prohibition in the United States. Tragedy struck when a fire rampaged through New York City’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (1911); the “unsinkable” Titanic hit an iceberg and sank (1912), taking the lives of more than 1,500; and the Spanish flu was the cover story for millions of deaths around the world.
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“The General Education Board” was Established by “Mr. Rockefeller… to Gain Control of the Educational Institutions of the Country”
Dr. W. J. Spillman, former chief of the Federal Farm Management Bureau of the Department of Agriculture, stated in a letter to the New York Globe: "Nine years ago I was approached by an agent of Mr. Rockefeller with the statement that his object in establishing the General Education Board was to gain control of the educational institutions of the country so that all men employed ...
Mayor of Oakland Arrested in Sacramento for Failing to Wear a Mask During Spanish Flu
(via Smithsonian Magazine) Starting in 1918, as the Bay Area suffered through the flu pandemic, Californians crafted masks of gauze, an open-weave fabric perhaps hard-pressed to stop microscopic particles, even when folded to a thickness of six, as the Oakland Red Cross advised. As a hub for soldiers returning from war, Oakland and San Francisco were targeted by influenza. By the end of the pandemic in ...
Samuel Zane Batten Wrote a Book Titled “The New World Order”, Published by the American Baptist Publication Society
As the Interchurch World Movement was gaining momentum, Samuel Zane Batten wrote a book titled “The New World Order”, published in 1919 by the American Baptist Publication Society. In this book, Batten paints a picture of a world entering a new phase in which a “new order” is rising out of the turmoil of World War. Batten proposed that a “world federation” be created which would ...
The German Seamen Mutinied after Infiltrating Communist ‘Cells’ Created Fear that British Scientists had developed a Secret Chemical Weapon
Rosa Luxemberg’s revolutionaries infiltrated into the German High Seas fleet, becoming very active in 1918. They spread rumors that the ships, and their crews, were to be sacrificed in an all out battle with the combined British and American navies. The rumor-mongers stated that the purpose of the battle was to cripple the combined allied fleets to such an extent they would be unable to defend ...
Choctaw Soldiers were Stationed as Code Talkers During WWI
During World War I, many Native Americans from around 26 tribes were enlisted to fight on the Allies' side. German troops were extremely adept at intercepting and interpreting the Allies' code. On Oct. 26, 1918, Choctaw soldiers were stationed as code talkers at field company headquarters. The Choctaw language was largely unknown to German troops, and the Allies were finally at an advantage. Once the tactic proved successful, ...
Soviet Firearm Confiscation
The Council of People's Commissars (the government) ordered the surrender of all firearms, ammunition, and sabres. As has been the case in almost every nation where firearms registration has been introduced (see April 1, 1918), registration proved a prelude to confiscation. Exempt from the confiscation order, however, were members of the Communist Party. A 1920 decree imposed a mandatory minimum penalty of six months in prison ...
Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his Family are Murdered by Bolshevik Secret Police
In the early morning of 17 July 1918 at around 1am, a squad of Bolshevik secret police murdered Russia's last emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, along with his wife, Tsaritsa Alexandra, their 14-year-old son, Tsarevich Alexis, and their four daughters. They were cut down in a hail of gunfire in a half-cellar room of the house in Ekaterinburg, a city in the Ural mountain region, where they ...
The Battle of Soissons, A Battle You’ve Never Heard of Changed the Course of WWI
On July 6, 1918, Allied troops readied themselves for a forgotten battle that turned the tide of World War I. Thousands of American servicemen marched through the night to position themselves for a surprise strike against the Germans. A thunderstorm raged the third week of July 1918. Other than the occasional arcs of white-hot lightning, the night was so dark that the American Marines marched with ...
Sedition Act of 1918 Enacted. Imprisons Hundreds for Anti-War Speech
The Sedition Act of 1918 was an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917 passed by Congress at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, who was concerned that any antiwar speech and organizing to oppose the draft and the war effort constituted a real threat to an American victory. Congress passed a measure, signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, that made it punishable by up to 20 years in prison ...
Firearm Registration Introduced in Soviet Union
The first Soviet gun controls were imposed during the Russian Civil War, as Czarists, Western troops, and national independence movements battled the central Red regime. In October 1918, (the government) ordered the surrender of all firearms, ammunition, and sabers… Stalin’s determination to destroy the “kulaks” led his regime to equally reinforce disarmament laws with the intent of eventually exterminating defenseless segments of the population. “Stalin apparently found little need to ...
