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Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th president of the United Statwret
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WW1 begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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The movement of 6 million African Americans from South East to North East and Midwest in America
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin is elected to to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana and first woman to hold a position in Congress.
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Act authorizes the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
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Act makes it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. and war effort or to promote the success of the country's enemies
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Lenin plans attack against Duma’s provisional government and later becomes the dictator of the world’s first communist state.
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The influenza (flu) epidemic starts in China and starts to spread
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Woodrow Wilson writes the 14 points to ensure world peace
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Germany uses a submarine to sink the British ship ‘Lusitania’ during WW1
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The Espionage Act is prolonged with the Sedition Act but it is extended to speech or any form of hate against the US government
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Senators feared US involvement in League of Nations would involve them in another war so US did not sign the treaty
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Case rules that the Espionage Act does not violate the First Amendment “free-speech is not unlimited”
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The 19th amendment is established, granting women the right to vote
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League of Nations has their first meeting
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The Emergency Quota Act restricts the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year in the United States
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The federal oil reserves are secretly leased by the secretary of the interior, Albert Fall
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Mickey Mouse is born
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The Great Depression begins starting a severe worldwide economic depression
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The United States stock market crashes
