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1918 and because
The Miraculous Mandarin, a modern story of prostitution, robbery, and murder, was started in 1918, but not performed until 1926 because of its sexual content.
On March 7, 1918, because of the move from Petrograd to Moscow, the Petrograd Cheka was created.
The German army did not alter its military plans concerning Finland after the peace treaty with the Bolsheviks because the Civil War of the Finns had opened an easy access with low costs to Fennoscandia, and because troops of a British Naval squadron had invaded the harbour of Murmansk on the northwestern coast of Russia by the Arctic Ocean on 9 March 1918.
Some of these illustrations were of German soldiers, because his four years of primary schooling at the Ixelles Municipal School No. 3 coincided with World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), during which Brussels was occupied by the German Empire.
The series was retired in 1918 at the height of the characters ' popularity-partly because of the growing tension against titles with German associations after World War I.
Roosevelt was popular enough to seriously contest the 1920 Republican nomination, but his health was broken by 1918, because of the lingering malaria.
Meanwhile, Russell spent much of 1918 in prison because of his pacifist activities.
The period in German history from 1919 to 1933 is commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, as the Republic's constitution was drafted here because the capital, Berlin, with its street rioting after the 1918 German Revolution, was considered too dangerous for the National Assembly to use it as a meeting place.
Alsace is frequently mentioned with Lorraine, because German possession of parts of these two régions ( as the imperial province Alsace-Lorraine, 1871 – 1918 ) was contested in the 19th and 20th centuries ; France and Germany exchanged control of Alsace four times in 75 years.
The so-called purple government was a political novelty, because the Christian Democrats had been in government since 1918.
For Raeder as for other naval officers, the defeat of 1918 was especially humiliating because under the charismatic leadership of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the Naval State Secretary from 1897-1917, the Navy had been promoted as the service which would give Germany the " world power status " that her leaders craved, and to that end, vast sums of money had been spent in the Anglo-German naval race before 1914.
Because of the High Seas Fleet mutiny of 1918, the right distrusted the navy as a hotbed of revolution, treason and mutiny while because of the Kapp putsch of 1920 the left distrusted the navy as a hotbed of counter-revolution, treason and putsche ; accordingly in the 1920s neither right-wing or left-wing parties were favourable for improving the Navy's budget.
In 1918, Clemenceau thought that France should adopt Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, mainly because of its point that called for the return of the disputed territory of Alsace-Lorraine to France.
Jackson sat out most of 1918 because of World War I.
On 17 July 1918, largely because of the von Urach potential claim, France and Monaco had also signed a brief but far-reaching treaty requiring prior French approval of all future Monégasque princes.
During the debates over the form of the new state in 1918, Kallio resigned from the Senate because he supported a republic instead of constitutional monarchy.
He is called the Father of the Republic because he headed the first government in German Austria and the First Austrian Republic in 1918 / 19, and was once again decisive in establishing the present Second Republic in 1945, becoming the first President of Austria.
And because of Steel's involvement, Crater Lake Lodge was opened in 1915 and the Rim Drive was completed in 1918.
Then from 1918 it was spelled Gjestal after the pronunciation of the dialect ( the d in dal is pronounced t because of the voiceless consonant s in front ).
Frazee was upset over the holdout because he had given Ruth bonuses after both the 1918 and 1919 seasons.
The United States resumed building light cruisers in 1918, largely because the ships it then had in service had become obsolete.
However, according to certain family documents and correspondence, his successor as King of Finland would have been his second surviving son Prince Wolfgang of Hesse ( 1896 – 1989 ), apparently because Wolfgang was with his parents in 1918 and ready to travel to Finland, where a wedding to a Finnish lady was already in preparation for the coming Crown Prince.
The 1918 pandemic received its nickname " Spanish flu " because of the early perceptions of the disease's severity in Spain.

1918 and threat
In the face of the collapse of the old regime and the threat of revolution and widespread disorder in late 1918, Adenauer maintained control in Cologne using his good working relationship with the Social Democrats.
After helping to create the Polish Army in Russia in 1918, Stanislaw Wojciechowski was forced to leave Moscow under threat of arrest.
The leaders of the Irish Parliamentary Party ( IPP ) sought a rapprochement with Griffith over the British threat of conscription, which both parties condemned, but Griffith refused unless the IPP embraced his more radical and subversive ideals, a suggestion which John Dillon, a leader of the IPP rubbished as unrealistic, although it would ultimately mean the defeat and dissolution of the IPP after the election in December 1918.
Irish conscription was never implemented but the threat galvanised Irish politics and led to Sinn Fein ’ s victory in December 1918.
By 1917 and 1918 the threat the Luftschifftruppe posed to London was diminished.
The issue now became the threat of conscription ; all interest in Home Rule dissipated when moderate Nationalists and Sinn Féin stood united during the Conscription Crisis of 1918.
World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) did not result in an immediate threat to Vienna, but it led to a lack of supplies because of the economic embargo imposed by the Entente powers, which resulted in a shortage of food and clothes.
The deteriorating situation in Germany, facing the threat of civil war, eventually forced Hoffman to begin to retreat westwards, to Germany, in December 1918.
He opposed the threat of compulsory military service during the Conscription Crisis of 1918, though as a member of the Irish Recruiting Council he continued to support voluntary recruitment, encountering intense opposition led by Sinn Féin.
As 1918 passed it became apparent that the subversive threat was not as serious or widespread as feared and the Government began to wind the force down.
Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet () was an operation which transferred the ships of the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy from their bases at Tallinn and Helsinki to Kronstadt in 1918, caused by the possible threat to those bases from the final German offensives against Russia during World War I.

1918 and wartime
However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.
* 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U. S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense.
The wartime takeover of all radio systems ended late in 1918, when the US Congress failed to pass a bill which would have extended this monopoly.
Their first opportunity to produce a major film came in 1918, when they purchased the film rights for My Four Years in Germany, a bestselling novel that condemned German wartime atrocities.
He had sufficiently recovered from wartime injuries to appear at the London Coliseum on 19 June 1916, as Rahmat Sheikh in The Maharani of Arakan, with Lena Ashwell ; at the Playhouse in December that year as Stephen Weatherbee in Charles Goddard & Paul Dickey's play The Misleading Lady ; at the Court Theatre in March 1917 he played Webber in Partnership and at that theatre the following year appeared in Eugène Brieux's play, adapted from the French, Damaged Goods ; at the Ambassadors Theatre in February 1918 he played George Lubin in The Little Brother, and during 1918 toured as David Goldsmith in The Bubble.
Yet, in 1918, before the bombings, President Woodrow Wilson had pressured the Congress to legislate the anti-immigrant, anti-anarchist Sedition Act of 1918 to protect wartime morale by deporting putatively undesirable political people.
His most important wartime network, ‘ La Dame Blanche ’, had by January 1918 over 400 agents reporting on German troop movements from occupied Belgium and northern France.
File: Stamp Malta 1918 3p war tax. jpg | UK, 1918: Stamp for colonial Malta with wartime taxation applied.
Following the victory of the Lloyd George coalition in the elections of 1918, Chamberlain was again appointed to the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 1919 and immediately faced the huge task of restoring Britain ’ s finances after four disastrous years of wartime expenditure.
He and Ramsay MacDonald were responsible for moving the motion at the Labour Party's National Executive Committee which dictated that Labour members of the wartime coalition government resign from it in preparation for the 1918 general election.
When he recovered he was first a commander of a company of Russian prisoners and then until later in 1918 he was given a position on the " scientific committee for wartime economy " with the war Ministry in Vienna.
The term was later used to describe two later British elections, the 1918 general election, fought at the end of the First World War and resulting in the huge victory of David Lloyd George's wartime coalition government, and the 1945 general election, held during the closing stages of the Second World War, where the Labour Party candidate, Clement Attlee, won by a landslide.
This side line was built by the United Kingdom government in 1918 due to wartime shortage of coal in Ireland.
# The Interlaced fleur-de-lis represent wartime service in France and alludes to the initial organization of the Headquarters Company as the Headquarters Troop, First Army at La Ferte-sous-Jouarre, France 10 August 1918.
He wrote and sponsored the Overman Act of 1918, which gave President Woodrow Wilson extraordinary powers to coordinate government agencies in wartime.
MacDonald had resigned as Labour leader in 1914, due to his wartime pacifism, and at the 1918 general election he lost his seat.
The Marcel Benoist Foundation was established by the will of the French lawyer Marcel Benoist, a wartime resident of Lausanne, who died in 1918.
Between 1914 and 1918, wartime emergency paper money issues were made by the government.
Between 1915 and 1918, CNoR tried desperately to increase profits during the height of conflict in the First World War when the majority of wartime traffic was moving on CPR.
Their first opportunity to produce a major film came in 1918, when they purchased the film rights for My Four Years in Germany, a bestselling novel that condemned German wartime atrocities.

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