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Of the 15 original members of the Commissars' Committee, 12 would later be executed or murdered on Stalin's orders.

On December 9, 1917 a British army marched into Jerusalem, ending Muslim control of the city for the first time since the Crusades.

Wilson embraced the Russian revolution as America's revolution as well.

Large numbers of descendants of Irish immigrants opposed becoming allies of Britain, especially in the wake of the bloody suppression of the 1916 Easter Rebellion.

Since 1914 Jewish Zionist Nationalist had been urging both the United States and Britain to act as their protectors.

As it became an active military player the United States would find its role to be not that of partner but increasingly that of master.

WW1 would be at the time the bloodiest war in history. American troops would be entering a slaughterhouse that had already claimed more than 2 million lives.

Woodrow Wilson was more and more impressed with the idea that "white civilization" and its domination in the rested largely on our ability to keep America intact.

By the mid 1890s Marxism would be the dominant ideology among the Russian intelligentsia.

The sense that the Civil War and Reconstruction were undiluted tragedies for the South and the nation. Perhaps even the wrong side won had a profound effect on Wilson's views of domestic polices.