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Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States after the assassination of the president William McKinley who he was vice president before his murder, and ended his presidency on March 4, 1909. -
Election of Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was the first Democrat to win a presidential election since1892 and one of only two Democratic presidents to serve in office between 1861and 1932. -
World War 1 begins
The breaking point that propelled Europe into the start of the war was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary. -
Panama Canal built
The Panama Canal is an waterway in Panama that was made to connect the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along with dividing the North and South Americas, it was mainly constructed to benefit maritime trade. -
Lusitania sunk
A german U-boat sunk a carrying ship called the lusitania which was holding hundreds on innocent American lives, this attack was on of the final pushes for America joining the war. -
Russian Revolution
The were many food and resource shortages that sparked a want for revolution among the civilians and along the lines of the Military there were inadequate supplies, logistics, and weaponry which made world war one very unsafe for Russian soldiers. All of this made the people realize that Czar Nicholas was unfit to rule. -
Eighteenth Amendment prohibits alcoholic beverages
The Eighteenth Amendment declared the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal, even though it did not outlaw the actual consumption of alcohol. -
Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States based of of their of sex -
WW1 ends/Treaty of Versailles
The treaty of Versailles was written up to force Germany to surrender colonies in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Along, with giving up territories to other nations it had fought like France and Poland. It made Germany reduce the size of its military, accept guilt for the war, and pay whatever it needed to to cover up the reprecussions of the war.