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Woodrow Wilson’s presidency
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. -
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World War 1 begins
World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. -
Lusitania Sinks
A British ocean liner that was shot and sunk with a torpedo by a German U20 submarine -
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Great migration
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration, was the movement of six million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. -
First Woman Elected into Congress
Jeanette Pickering Rankin was elected into the House of Representatives from Montana -
Lenin leads the Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. -
Selective Service Act
The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. -
Spanish Flu Epidemic
The 1918 influenza pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. -
Fourteen 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. -
Espionage Act of 1917
The law was extended on May 16, 1918, by the Sedition Act of 1918, actually a set of amendments to the Espionage Act, which prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States -
Sedition Act
The Sedition Act of 1918 was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. -
Schenk vs. US
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. A unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., concluded that defendants who distributed fliers to draft-age men -
US rejects League of Nations
Senate rejects League of Nations, Nov. 19, 1919. On this day in 1919, the Senate spurned the Treaty of Versailles that had ended World War I and provided for a new world body, championed by President Woodrow Wilson, called the League of Nations. -
US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
In 1919, for the first time, the Senate rejected a peace treaty. By a vote of 39 to 55, far short of the required two-thirds majority, the Senate denied consent to the Treaty of Versailles. -
19th Ammendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Communist China was created
The Communist Party of China, also referred to as the Chinese Communist Party, is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China. Founded by Mao Zedong in 1921. -
King Tuts Tomb was opened
In Thebes, Egypt English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen. -
First winter Olympics
It’s quite possibly the closest thing the No-Maj world has to a Triwizard Tournament: in 1924 France hosted the first-ever winter Olympics, a celebration of sports played on snow and ice. -
The Great Gatsby
The classic novel "The Great Gatsby" is published by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. -
Mickey Mouse is born
Walt Disney’s rodent character made his first appearance in 1928. Steamboat Willie was the movie that launched Mickey, and the animated mouse with the red shorts hasn’t looked back since.
