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Wilson's Presidency term
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WW1
Timeframe of WW1 1914- 1918 -
Great Migration
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Lusitania
A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner that was in route from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the more than 1,900 passengers and crew members on board, more than 1,100 died, including more than 120 Americans. This was one of the reasons why Americans wanted to join the war -
Women elected to Congress
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Lenin led a Russian Revolution
8th of March- the 8th of November -
Selective Service Act
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Espionage Act
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Influenza (flu) epidemic
the Influenza epidemic killed somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. The effect of the influenza epidemic was so severe that the average life span in the US was depressed by 10 years. The physicians of the time were helpless against this powerful agent of influenza. -
Wilson's 14 points
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Sedition Act
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Schenk vs. US
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19th Amerndment
Passed on June 4th, 1919. Ratified on Augest 18, 1920 -
US senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
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Radio Invented
Gugliemo Marconi invented the Radio in 1920, in his parents attic. Radios were the first wireless mode of communication. In 1906, Marconi shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Ferdinand Braun, in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy (radio). -
US rejects League of Nations membership
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Wall Street bombing
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Tme Magizine first published
Time magazine was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, making it the first weekly news magazine in the United States. The first edition featured speaker Joseph G Cannon, who was a retired speaker of the House of Representatives. -
Amelia Earhart becomes first women to fly over Atlantic
Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. In 1928 she became the first women to fly over the Atlantic Ocean. In 1937. Amelia Earhart became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license, and helped paved the way for womens rights. She sadly mysteriously disappeared while trying to circumnavigate the globe from the equator. -
Martin Luther King Jr is born
