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1917 Congress passes the Invention Secrecy Act in the United States as a wartime measure to prevent disclosure of inventions that “might be detrimental to the public safety or defense.” The act ended in 1918, but was resurrected i in 1940 and re- -instituted i in the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951. 1917 Second Communist Revolution in Russia successful. The regime of Lenin would be responsible for 4,017,000 murders between 1917-1924. 1917 Tesla reluctantly accepts the “Edison Medal.” Tesla had achieved a charge of 20 million volts in some of his devices. 1917 U.S. passes Trading With the Enemy Act, forbidding U.S. firms or their foreign subsidiaries from trading with enemies of the U.S. except U under license. 1917 Britain informs Lord Rothschild of the intent to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine, supported by the Zionist movement created by British Intelligence. 1917 Fifteen states in the U.S. have eugenics laws on the books which authorize sterilization of crimi- nals, epileptics, the retarded, and insane. 1918 Henry Moray finds a post-war job as a fireman on a railroad, then obtained work as a civil engi- neer for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, and as an electrical engineer for several companies in Salt Lake City. He became a certified member of the American Association of Engineers. 1918 The Surgeon General of the United States issues a report that states that tuberculosis is the leading cause for or discharge ofn men from the Armed Forces. 1918 Beginning of period of near-anarchy in Germany, that would last until Hitler becomes President of the Reich in 1933. Conflict between Communist element and National Socialist Democratic Party, with Hindenburg administration 1 presiding, 1918 Karl T. Compton assigned to American Embassy in Paris. Compton would later become a special advisor on Atomic Development and would later advise Truman to drop the two atomic bombs on Japan. Compton would become a director of the Ford Foundation, Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, and 346 Appendix F: General Chronology of Events 1917 United States intervenes and enters World War I. 1917 Tesla describes the invention of radar in the Electrical Experimenter of August 1917. 1917 Post WWI supplies of chlorine designated to be added to water supplies. 1917 21.3% of WWI draftees rejected because of handicaps. 1917 AMA hostility toward compulsory health insurance. 1917 Outbreaks of encephalitis in China and Europe. 1917 Trotsky arrives in New York aboard the steamer Monserrat, picks up funds, and heads for Russia to start the Bolshevik Revolution. 1917 Prohibition amendment ratified in the U.S. with scheduled implementation in the year 1920. 1917 British use phosgene gas shells on the Germans. 1918 World War I ends after the use of 66 million poison gas artillery shells. 1918 Congress passes the Sedition Act of 1918. 1918 Great influenza epidemic attributed to widespread use of vaccines. 1918 Wilson calls for the formation of a League of Nations. 1918 Paris Peace Conference. 1918 President Wilson aids the new Soviet regime with bridge building projects. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation