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Wilson was president from 1913 to 1921
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WWI was from July 28th 1914 to November 11th 1918, America entered in 1917, it was supposed to be the war to end all wars with many advancement in military technology
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The Lusitania was a British civilian ship that the Germans sank with their submarines, causing american passengers to die and america to enter WWI
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Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives in 1916
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The great migration was from 1916 to 1970, and involved around 6 million can Americans moving out of the south and settling in other parts of the country, mostly to get away from racial discrimination
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The Russian revolution led by Vladimir Lenin was a violent uprising against the Romanov dynasty brought about the end of imperial rule in Russia
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The selective service act was a law passed by Wilson that required all men between 21 and 30 to register for military service
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The espionage act is a law passed by Wilson that prohibits it’s people from leaking any information to other countries that could jeopardize the security of the United States
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The sedition act imposed harsh penalties on anyone who was spreading anti war messages around in america, or talking bad about the country in anyway
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The influenza pandemic was the widespread infection of when is now called the flu, much like our pandemic today, people tried to stay inside, wear masks, and get vaccinated
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Wilson came up with the 14 points, these were a set of things that Wilson believed needed to happen in order to prevent all future conflicts, it later earned him the Nobel peace prize
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The Supreme Court ruled that distributing flyers to try and stop soldiers from enlisting in the military was unconstitutional and could be punished
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The US senate rejected the treaty of Versailles because they couldn’t agree on what the terms of the treaty should be
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the 19th amendment allowed women the right to vote
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A horse-drawn cart carrying a massive improvised explosive was detonated on the busiest corner on Wall Street killing 38 people
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The teapot dome scandal was from 1921 to 1922 and involved the secretary of the interior accepting bribes from oil companies so they could get access to oil set aside by the president for the navy
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Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming
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Robert H. Goddard demonstrates the viability of the first liquid fueled rockets with his test in Auburn Massachusetts
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NBC Radio Network was formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opening with twenty-four stations.
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Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King was born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta Georgia
