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Events relating to north america
A deciphered telegram, from the German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann, inflames US public opinion by promising Texas and more to Mexico
Woodrow Wilson, president of the USA, declares war on Germany
German U-boats sink 430 Allied and neutral merchant ships in this month alone
Canadian troops take Vimy Ridge, subsequently the site of Canada's most important war memorial
The Allies frustrate the German U-boats by introducing the convoy system
In My Antonia Willa Cather's heroine survives setbacks on the Nebraska frontier
President Woodrow Wilson formulates fourteen detailed proposals as a basis for world peace once the conflict has ended
US troops are by now fighting in large numbers on the western front
Quia Pauper Amavi contains the first three of Ezra Pound's eventually more than 100 cantos
H.L. Mencken's The American Language traces the gradual evolution of American from English
John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown fly from St John's in Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland
US boxer Jack Dempsey defeats Jess Willard for the world heavyweight title, sending him from the ring with a broken jaw
At least thirty-eight people are killed in a race riot in Chicago
Lillian Gish stars as a Cockney girl in D.W. Griffith's inter-racial film romance Broken Blossoms, set in London's slums
President Woodrow Wilson suffers a severe stroke that renders him largely incapable during the final seventeen months of his presidency
Marcel Duchamp adds a moustache and beard to a postcard of the Mona Lisa, and gives it the subtly offensive French title LHOOQ
The actors Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin establish United Artists with the director D.W. Griffith
Boston Red Sox sell their star player, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees for $125,000
Sherwood Anderson establishes a reputation with a collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio
To President Wilson's profound disappointment the US Congress, by failing to ratify the treaty of Versailles, opts out of the League of Nations
Prohibition comes into effect in the USA, three months after the Volstead Act has provided guidelines for enforcement
Ezra Pound publishes Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, a poem that reflects on the practice of poetry itself
Edith Wharton publishes her best-known novel, The Age of Innocence
Bristol-born actor Cary Grant moves to the USA with a troupe of touring tumblers
The publication of Scott FitzGerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, brings him instant success
