Historical Examples. 1  It was also forbidden to open the window shutters of the facade. 2  In the facade of the building in front of them only one window was lighted. 3  Besides, the facade was exposed to the current in the street. 4  A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. Essays, First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson She regarded the stately proportions of the facade with awe.
On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days later. The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917. World War I Trenches in France. Germanyâs resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917 became the primary motivation behind Wilsonâs decision to lead the United States into World War I.
Allied strategy, agreed upon by the United States and Britain before America had entered the war, called for the United States to fight a holding action in the Pacific while the Allies concentrated on the defeat of Nazi Germany.he tide turned against Japan and Germany, and in favor of the United States, Britain, China, and the Soviet Union, the following year. In the Pacific, the United States began to tighten the noose around Japanese through an island-hopping campaign.