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ENGLAND TIGHTENS BLOCKADE LINES ON SHIPMENTS OF FOOD - New Regulations Issued as to Plan of Rationing Neutral Countries - Will Prevent U.S. Shipping Supplies to Holland
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Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917, together with the Zimmermann Telegram, brought American entry into World War I on the British side. The U-boat campaign of World War I, waged intermittently by Germany between 1915 and 1918 against Britain and her allies, was one of the most consequential campaigns of the naval war.
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The United States declared war on the German Empire on April 6, 1917. President Woodrow Wilson asked a special joint session of the United States Congress for a declaration of war on April 2, 1917, which passed in the Senate on the same day and then in the House of Representatives four days later on April 6. Wilson signed it into law the same day, making the United States officially involved in the First World War.
Wikipedia →1917 Potato riots
The Potato riots in June–July 1917 was a popular uprising in the Dutch capital city Amsterdam that was caused by the food shortage in the Netherlands during World War I... On 28 June 1917, there was a shortage of potatoes. It became known in the neighborhoods of Amsterdam that there was a ship with potatoes in the Prinsengracht, but these were for the army. In order to feed their families, the working women of the Eastern Islands and the Czar Peter Neighborhood plundered the ship.
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