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Lusitania
Lusitania was first launched in 1906. it was in service from 1907-1915. When RMS Lusitania left New York for Britain on 1 May 1915, German submarine warfare was intensifying in the Atlantic. Germany had declared the seas around the United Kingdom a war zone. On the afternoon of 7 May, a German U-Boat torpedoed Lusitania, 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland and inside the declared "zone of war". -
Wilson's Presidency Term
Wilson served as president from March 4th, 1913 to March 4th, 1921. He was a member of the democratic party. -
World War 1 Time Frame
World war 1 ended on November 11, 1918. It began when Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, assassinated Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria. One month later, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. -
Year of First Women Elected to Congress
Jeannette Rankin became the first woman to hold national office in the United States when she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916 by the state of Montana as a member of the Republican Party. -
Great Migration Time Frame
The Great Migration created the first large urban black communities in the North. It is conservatively estimated that 400,000 African Americans left the South in 1916 through 1918 to take advantage of a labor shortage in the wake of the First World War. -
Lenin Led a Russian Revolution
Lenin spent the years leading up to the 1917 revolution in exile, within Russia and abroad. -
Selective Service Act
The Selective Service Act authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people. -
Espionage Act
The Espionage Act provided penalties of 20 years imprisonment and fines up to $10,000 for those convicted of interfering with military recruitment. -
Influenza Epidemic
The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. -
Wilson's 14 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. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
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. The Sedition Act of 1918 stated that people or countries cannot say negative things about the government or the war. -
Schenk VS US
Case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger. -
US rejects League of Nations Membership
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
The senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles based primarily on objections to the League of Nations. The U.S. would never ratify the treaty or join the League of Nations. -
19th Amendment
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. -
Congress Passes Immigration Restrictions
Congress passes immigration restrictions, for the first time creating a quota for European immigration to the United States. Targeted at "undesirable" immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, the act is generous towards the migrants from Northern and Western Europe. -
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby. -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover becomes the president of the United States. He was a republican. -
Stock Market Crash
The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression.
