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Hollywood movie production
Hollywood California, becones the center of movie production in the U.S. Merged with Los Angelos in 1907. Very overpopulated. -
Archduke assassinated
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated. He was visiting the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. he was killed by a man named Gavrilo Princip who was a Serbian nationalist. -
Germany declares war on Russia
Germany declares war on Russia and France. Great Britian declres war on Germany and Austria Hungary. on the afternoon of august 1st russia began to mobilize. Italy declares nutality. -
Alexander Graham Bell make telephone call
Alexander graham Bell makes the first trascontinental telephone call. The line stretched 390 miles from New York to Pittsburgh, 545 miles to Chicago, 500 miles to Omaha, 585 miles to Denver, 580 miles to Salt Lake City, and 770 miles to San Francisco. Close to 3,400 miles in total. -
German U-Boats sink Lusitana
German U-Boats sink the Lusitania, and 1,198 people die. Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Included 120 americans on the boat -
theory of relativity
Albert Einstein proposes his general theory of relativity. The theory is submitted to Annalen der Physik on Mar. 20, 1916. Einstein presented the general theory of relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1915. -
battles of Verdun and Somme
The battles of Verdun and the Somme claim millions of lives. French divisions intended for the Somme were diverted and the supporting attack by the British became the principal effort. The sacrificial struggle at Verdun restored the pride of the French army, firmly cemented the French nation in determination to win the war. -
Woodrows reelection
Woodrow Wilson is reelected president. Incumbent President Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, was pitted against Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. -
Russia withdraws
Russia withdraws from the war. led to civil war and forced the Allies to defend. 1,700,000 Russian soldiers were dead. -
U.S. declares war on Germany
The United States declares war on Germany. Germany renewed its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare that it had abandoned in 1915 after the sinking of the Lusitania. Germany declared war upon the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the US was formally neutral during World War II. -
Slective Service Act
The Selective Service Act sets up the draft. It was responsible for the process of selecting men for induction into the military service. From the initial registration to the actual delivery of men to military training camps. -
proprose of league of Nations.
President Wilson proposes the League of Nations. Wilson voiced the wartime opinions of many diplomats and intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic who believed there was a need for a new type of standing international organization dedicated to fostering international cooperation, providing security for its members, and ensuring a lasting peace. -
pass of Sedition Act.
Congress passes the Sedition Act. A piece of legislation designed to protect America's participation in World War I. Mainly to silence opposition newspapers. -
Bolsheviks establish a communist regime in Russia
The Bolsheviks establish a Communist regime in Russia.The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces. Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings on 24 October 1917 (O.S.). -
the first world war
The First World War. Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire. there were 17 million deaths -
nineteenth ammendment
Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the vote. Granted American women the right to vote a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote.