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Wilson served as the 28th President of the United States and led the US through WWI. As president, Wilson had established things like the Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, and helped to negotiate the Treaty of Versailles. Term ended on March 4, 1921.
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An international conflict that involved the Central Power: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey against the Allies: Italy, Japan, Russia, Great Britain, France, and in 1917 the United States too. The war was greater than anyone had ever seen before and ended in the defeat of the Central Power. Ended in 1918.
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The Great Migration was an exodus of six million African Americans from North to South in an attempt to escape racist ideologies and practices to create better lives in the US. Ended in 1970.
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A British Passenger ship on its way from New York to Liverpool, England that was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. Killing more than 1,100 out of the 1,900 passengers total.
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The revolution led Russia to leave the war and transform it into the USSR. The normal monarchy of the country was now turned into the world’s first communist state.
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Campaigning as a progressive in 1916, Jeannette Rankin was the first woman sworn into the House pledging to work on women suffrage amendments and social welfare issues.
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The act was passed by Congress and signed by President Wilson that required all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.
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The act prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying description of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason that it may be used as injury against the United States or advantage to any foreign nation.
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The epidemic was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. It was first identified in military personnel in the spring of 1918. About 500 million people died (⅓ of the world’s population) became infected and about 50 million deaths worldwide.
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The Fourteen Points were a proposal made by Wilson outlining the rebuild of our postwar world. Point 14 was to be noted the most important which called for a “general association of nations” and offer “mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small nations alike.”
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As an extension of theEspionage Act of 1917, the Sedition Act permitted the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing "false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the US government. The act eventually expired on March 3 of 1801.
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Socialists Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer distributed leaflets saying that the draft violated the 13th Amendment prohibition against involuntary servitude, and Schenck was charged with conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act of 1917 cause insubordination in the military and obstruct recruitment.
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The treaty was signed by a representative of each country in June of 1919, but for the US to accept conditions, it had to be passed by Congress. Republican Lodge opposed the treaty, especially the part of the League of Nations. The US would never ratify the treaty to join the League of Nations.
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Guaranteed citizens the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State account of sex, and Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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The scandal was bribery involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding that surrounded the secret releasing of the federal oil reserves by the secretary of interior. Ended in 1923.
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The brothers began showing in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The eldest brother, Harry, was president of the company and ran its headquarters in NYC, Albert was the treasurer and head of sales and distribution, and Sam and Jack managed the studio in Hollywood.
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The winter games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France where sixteen nations sent athletes. The United States won four medals and Norway had won eighteen in total.
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The broadcast was live from Nashville, TN and was created because some Southerners did not receive signals all the way from Chicago. It aired on Saturday Nights with folk music, fiddling, and country-western music.
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Pilot Floyd Bennett, with Richard Evelyn Byrd as his navigator, guided a three engine monoplane. It was about a 1,545 mile trip that lasted 15 hours and 30 minutes. They were later awarded the Medal of Honor for their achievements.
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Martin Luther King would go onto be the one of the biggest civil rights leader in history. He would be the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 35. His famous works would be the the “Letters from Birmingham Jail” and his “I Have a Dream” speech. King would eventually be assassinated on April 4, 1968 while standing on his motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee.
