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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. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). -
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. -
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First women elected to congress
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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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 that occurred between 1916 and 1970. -
Selective Service Act
Signed into law by Wilson, 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. -
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Lenin led a Russian revolution
During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
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. -
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Sedition Act
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. -
Schenck vs. 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. -
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A women runs the US
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke but the government felt it was in the country’s best interest to keep things quiet. The public didn’t learn about the stroke for months, during which time his wife, Edith Wilson, was making most executive decisions. Historians now say that Mrs. Wilson was effectively the U.S. President during the remainder of Wilson’s term, which means that a woman was running the country throughout 1920. -
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18th Amendment
On January 29, 1919, Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States; it would go into effect the following January. It was repealed on December 5th 1933. -
19th 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. -
Wall Street Bombing
On September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn cart carrying a massive, improvised explosive was detonated on the busiest corner on Wall Street. -
NFL was born
On September 17, 1920, a group of men gathered in Canton, Ohio at the Hupmobile showroom of Ralph Hay, owner of the hometown Bulldogs. The result of the meeting was the birth of the National Football League. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. -
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The Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash that occurred in 1929.
