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World War II When Lions Roared - 1994 TV is rated/received certificates of: Iceland:L
The sinking of the Lusitania took place in May 1915; the U.S. entered World War 1 in April 1917. It's a mystery to me that people say it was a cause of the U.S. going to war. Obviously, it turned public opinion in the U.S. against Germany.
Many artifacts and pieces of art were stolen, destroyed and lost during the war, and the location of many of them still remains a mystery. There are several lists that exist of broken, missing or stolen artifacts.
You had to be eighteen to join the military in both World Wars. There were foolish teens who gave false ages and did not present birth certificates to prove their age. So some fifteen years olds actually managed to get themselves enlisted. Some of them wrote home to ask their parents to go to the military recruiters office and present their birth certificates to get them out once they found out how hard boot camp and war was. Some parents let their sons suffer as punishment. Sadly some of them died in World War 1.
The bonus army, a collection of world war veterans and their families gathered in DC in 1932 in protest of the world war adjusted compensation act. This act delayed their promises payment until 1945. They were given certificates that would build compound interest until that date. However, this was during the great depression and the veterans needed their promises cash immediately, so they demanded it be cashed immediately. The gov refused, and Hoover ordered general Douglas MacArthur to drive them off all government property.