When Hettie Sophronia Phillips was born on 11 April 1916, in Spencer, Indiana, United States, her father, John Thomas Phillips, was 33 and her mother, Cordelia Barker, was 33. She married Delmer Lewis Pearl Johnson on 14 December 1933, in Warrick, Indiana, United States. She lived in Clay Township, Spencer, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Union Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 28 September 1996, in Newburgh, Ohio Township, Warrick, Indiana, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Tennyson, Skelton Township, Warrick, Indiana, United States.
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U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
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