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On 8 April 1904, Britain and France signed the Entente Cordiale, ending nearly a millennium of rivalry with a series of colonial bargains. The agreement did not just settle old disputes — it eventually helped ignite a world war.
On 6 April 1917, the US declared war on Germany. Wilson had been re-elected five months earlier on a promise of neutrality. He won. Then he changed his mind. The 20th century was shaped in that gap.
Edward Stettinius dropped out of school at sixteen, ground his way through a decade of failed ventures, and eventually ran the Diamond Match Company. Then the Allies hired J.P. Morgan to buy for the First World War, and Morgan hired him.