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Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President
"Roosevelt, after winning headlines in the war, ran as vice president under McKinley and rose to the presidency after McKinley’s assassination by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901. Among his many interventions in American life, Roosevelt acted with vigor to expand the military, bolstering naval power especially, to protect and promote American interests abroad. This included the construction of eleven battleships between 1904 and 1907" (American Empire, 2019). -
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine 1904
"...Roosevelt pronounced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, proclaiming U.S. police power in the Caribbean" (American Empire, 2019). "Roosevelt reaffirmed the Monroe Doctrine and expanded it by declaring that the United States had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American nation in order to correct administrative and fiscal deficiencies" (American Empire, 2019). -
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World War I
"World War I ('The Great War') toppled empires, created new nations, and sparked tensions that would explode across future years" (World War I & Its Aftermath, 2019). Austria declared war on Serbia on July 28, 1914. Then Russia and Germany joined. When Germany "struck against neutral Belgium" Great Britain then entered. The US joined in 1917. The war ended on November 11, 1918.(World War I & Its Aftermath, 2019). -
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
"...the unrestricted and surprise torpedo attacks from German submarines were deadly. In May 1915, Germans sank the RMS Lusitania. Over a hundred American lives were lost. The attack, coupled with other German attacks on American and British shipping, raised the ire of the public and stoked the desire for war" (World War I & Its Aftermath, 2019). Photo Credit: Popperfoto/Contributor, 1915 -
Espionage Act
"As war passions flared, challenges to the onrushing patriotic sentiment that America was making the world 'safe for democracy' were considered disloyal. Wilson signed the Espionage Act in 1917..., stripping dissenters and protesters of their rights to publicly resist the war. Critics and protesters were imprisoned. Immigrants, labor unions, and political radicals became targets of government investigations and an ever more hostile public culture"(World War I & Its Aftermath, 2019). -
United States Joins WW I
"The United States entered the conflict in 1917 and was never again the same. The war heralded to the world the United States’ potential as a global military power..." (World War I & Its Aftermath, 2019).
"Congress declared war on Germany on April 4, 1917. The nation entered a war three thousand miles away with a small and unprepared military. The United States was unprepared in nearly every respect for modern war" (World War I & Its Aftermath, 2019). -
Treaty of Versailles (1919) Signed
"As part of the the armistice, Allied forces followed the retreating Germans and occupied territories in the Rhineland to prevent Germany from reigniting war. As Germany disarmed, Wilson and the other Allied leaders gathered in France at Versailles for the Paris Peace Conference to dictate the terms of a settlement to the war. After months of deliberation, the Treaty of Versailles officially ended the war" (World War I & Its Aftermath, 2019). -
Eighteenth Amendment
"Female voters, like their male counterparts, pursued many interests. Concerned about squalor, poverty, and domestic violence, women had already lent their efforts to prohibition, which went into effect under the Eighteenth Amendment in January 1920. After that point, alcohol could no longer be manufactured or sold" (The New Era, 2019). -
Nineteenth Amendment
"In January 1918, President Woodrow Wilson declared his support for the women’s suffrage amendment, and two years later women’s suffrage became a reality. After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, women from all walks of life mobilized to vote." (The Progressive Era, 2019). "The 1920s, for instance, represented a time of great activism among American women, who had won the vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920" (The New Era, 2019).