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Wilson's Presidency Term
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World War 1
World War 1 started on July 28th 1914 and ended on November 11th 1918. It started after the assassination of Archduke Franz Fernidad. -
Lusitania
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat killing 1,198 passengers and crew. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany two years later. -
Rankin was elected
Rankin was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. -
Russian Revolution ran by Vladimir Lenin
During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule. -
Selective Service Act
Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which Wilson signed into law on May 18, 1917. The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service -
Espionage Act
The Espionage Act essentially made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country's enemies. -
Influenza Epidemic
The 1918 influenza pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. -
Wilson's 14 points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918, speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
The Sedition Act
The Sedition Act of 1918 made it a crime to "willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States" or to "willfully urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of the production" of the things "necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war." -
Schenck v US
Schenck v. United States was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. -
US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
In 1919 the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration. -
The Nineteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal, also called Oil Reserves Scandal or Elk Hills Scandal, in American history, scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. -
King Tut's Tomb is Opened
On February 16, 1923, in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen. -
The Great Kanto Earthquake
The Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama in 1923 leaving over 100,000 fatalities. -
The First Winter Olympics
The very first Winter Olympics are held in 1924. They take place in Chamonix, France. -
The First Macy's Day Parade
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held on November 27th, 1924. They traveled six miles from Herald Square to Harlem in Manhattan. -
Great Mississippi Flood
The Great Mississippi Flood in 1927 affects 700,000 people in what was then considered the greatest national disaster in US history.
