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1917

Across the globe, 1917 brought upheaval. Russians overthrew Czar Nicholas II, then staged a second revolution, putting Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks in power and sparking a civil war. The U.S. and China both declared war on Germany, entering World War I in its fourth year. Puerto Ricans gained U.S. citizenship. And as America’s first-ever female congresswoman took office, the push for women’s suffrage intensified, with increased picketing and the arrest of many activists, followed by jailhouse hunger strikes, force feedings and mistreatment.

Mar

08

Wars and Conflicts - The Russian Revolution -

23/02/1917: On this day in 1917, the February Revolution in Russia begins Bolshevik demonstration in the streets of Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg) during the days when the Kornilov uprising threatened the Provisional Government and Kerensky, its leader, was away on the Galician Front visiting the troops. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images)

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Apr

02

Portrait Of Jeannette Rankin

Seated portrait of American politician and feminist Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973) who served as Congresswoman for the state of Montana, February 1917. (Photo by Library of Congress/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

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Apr

06

WASHINGTON D.C. - APRIL 2: President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I, in his address to Congress in Washington D.C. on April 2, 1917.

WASHINGTON D.C. – APRIL 2: President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I, in his address to Congress in Washington D.C. on April 2, 1917.

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Oct

15

Mata Hari Posed in Youthful Glory

(Original Caption) Photo shows Mata Hari as she looked in the days of her glory, before the war. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)

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