The CWS credential displays to patients, employers and peers a dedication to the highest standards and achievement in wound care. Achieve board certification, a formal recognition of a master level knowledge and specialty practice in wound management.
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.
The US entered World War I largely because of the German practice of submarine warfare. The entry of the US broke the stalemate that had existed for most of the war and led to the Allied victory. The US did not like the fact that Germany was using submarines to sink ships headed for England.