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"During the night of April 14,1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg on her maiden voyage. Two hours and 40 minutes later she sank, resulting in the loss of 1,501 lives."(Behavior under Extreme Conditions: The "Titanic" Disaster, 2011) -
"Spurred by access to easy credit, consumer expenditures for household appliances, for example, grew by more than 120 percent between 1919 and 1929. Henry Ford’s assembly line, which advanced production strategies practiced within countless industries, brought automobiles within the reach of middle-income Americans and further drove the spirit of consumerism. By 1925, Ford’s factories were turning out a Model-T every ten seconds." (The New Era, 2019) -
"Woodrow Wilson campaigned for the presidency in 1912 as a progressive democrat."(Woodrow Wilson on the New Freedom (1912), 2019) -
"World War I (“The Great War”) toppled empires, created new nations, and sparked tensions that would explode across future years. On the battlefield, gruesome modern weaponry wrecked an entire generation of young men. The United States entered the conflict in 1917 and was never again the same. The war heralded to the world the United States’ potential as a global military power, and domestically." (World War I & Its Aftermath, 2019)
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"in three distina waves that, had they occurred even two or three years apart, would have been seen as distina pandemics. In March 1918 a "spring" wave of flu began in the midwestern United States. It spread to Europe, and had reached North Africa, India, China, and Australia by July."(THE GEOGRAPHY AND MORTALITY OF THE 1918 INFLUENZA PANDEMIC,1991) -
" Female voters, like their male counterparts, pursued many interests. Concerned about squalor, poverty, and domestic violence, women had already lent their efforts to prohibition, which went into effect under the Eighteenth Amendment in January 1920. " (The New Era, 2019) -
"The 1920s, for instance, represented a time of great activism among American women, who had won the vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920."(The New Era, 2019) -
"As Germany disarmed, Wilson and the other Allied leaders gathered in France at Versailles for the Paris Peace Conference to dictate the terms of a settlement to the war. After months of deliberation, the Treaty of Versailles officially ended the war."( World War I & Its Aftermath, 2019)