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Woodrow Wilson served as the 28th president of the US
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July 28, 1914 - November 11, 1918 The First World War, also known as the Great War.
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1915 RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U- boat off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. Their sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany two years later.
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The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern US to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West
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A republican from Montana, she was the first women elected into congress
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An act requiring all men in the 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 intendedto inference with the US armed forces prosecution of the war effort or 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 usually deadly influenza pandemic.
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A statement of principals of peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end WWI.
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"An act making it a crime to ""willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal or abusive language about the form of the Goverm=nment of the United States."
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A landmark US Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act during WWI.
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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. ... The United States never ratified the Treaty of Versailles, nor did it join the League of Nations.
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Allowed women to vote
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A bribery scandal involving the administration of president Warren G. Harding.
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John T. Scopes is tried for teaching evolution Scopes Trial, also called Scopes Monkey Trial, (July 10–21, 1925, Dayton, Tennessee, U.S.), highly publicized trial (known as the “Monkey Trial”) of a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
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Flies from NY to Paris
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Is elected governor of NY Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1928 and served from 1 January 1929 until his election as President of the United States in 1932.
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Five of Al Capone’s rivals are killed Four men dressed as police officers enter gangster Bugs Moran's headquarters on North Clark Street in Chicago, line seven of Moran's henchmen against a wall, and shoot them to death. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, as it is now called, was the culmination of a gang war between arch rivals Al Capone and Bugs Moran.
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Unemployment reaches 4 to 5 million Real wages rose by 16 percent between 1929 and 1932, while the unemployment rate ballooned from 3 to 23 percent. Real wages remained high throughout the rest of the decade, although unemployment never dipped below 9 percent, no matter how it is measured.