The Kalahari Desert is a large arid to semi-arid sandy area in southern Kgalagadi Africa extending 900,000 kmÂ² (362,500 sq. mi.), covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa. It has huge tracts of excellent grazing after good rains.
U.S. enters World War I. On April 6, 1917, two days after the U.S. Senate votes 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the decision by a vote of 373 to 50, and the United States formally enters the First World War. When World War I erupted in 1914,...
The United States joined the war April 6, 1917 when they declared war on Germany. Curiously, the US didn't officially declare war on Germany's co-combatants the Austro-H â¦ ungarian Empire until Dec of 1917. The US remained neutral from the outbreak of the war in 1914 until spring of 1917.