with the Bolshevik-dominated soviets around the country as their tool for enforcement — the first true totalitarian regime in history. - Arthur Herman

nations would arise from the wreckage of the Habsburg Empire — ones that would become the cockpit of turmoil and instability over the next two decades.

In Wilson's view, America's neutrality was a reflection of strength, moral strength, rather than weakness or timidity. His other slogan in 1916, besides "He Kept Us Out of War," was "Too Proud to Fight.

the Secret Service had unearthed a covert industrial spy network operating at the behest of a German commercial attaché