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Served in office and led America through World War I. He was an advocate for democracy and world peace.
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The 1st World War, also known as the Great War.
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RMS Lusitania was a british ocean liner that was sunk by a German U- boat off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passangers and the crew.There sinking presaged the US declaration of war on Germany two years later.
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A Republican from Montana, she was the first woman elected to Congress.
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A movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern U.S. to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
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The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Russian Empire, commencing with the abolition of the monarchy in 1917.
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An act authorized by the US federal government requiring all men in US between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.
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The Espionage Act made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort to promote the success of the country’s enemies.
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The 1918 influenza pandemic (also known as the Spanish Flu), was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic
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A statement of principals for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end WW1.
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One of the first test of freedom of speech, that the house passed, permitting the deportation, fine or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false or scandalous writing”.
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Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated.
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For the first time, the Senate rejected a peace treaty. By a vote of 39 to 55, far short of the required two-thirds majority, the Senate denied consent to the Treaty of Versailles.
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A landmark U.S. Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I.
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In 1920, the “Lost Generation” expatriate writers who lived in Europe following World War I became a force in American literature.
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In November 1920, the first commercially-licensed radio station began broadcasting live results of the presidential election.
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Baseball Player and unofficial King of New York.
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The Chicago mills gave in at the end of October. By the end of November, workers were back at their jobs in Gary, Johnstown, Youngstown and Wheeling.
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The prohibition of the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the U.S. no matter the sex. (Women get the right to vote)
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A bribery scandal involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
