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Woodrow Wilson became President in 1913 and was president until 1921
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The First World War began in the summer of 1914, shortly after the assassination of Austria’s Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, and lasted more than four years, ending in 1918.
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Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. The sinking occurred about two years before the United States declaration of war on Germany.
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No history of American representative government could properly be written without a major reference to Representative Jeannette Rankin. The Montana Republican carries the distinction of being the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress. That singular event occurred in 1916.
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The great migration, sometimes known as the great northward migration or the black migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern states to the urban northeast, Midwest, and west states.
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Jeannette Rankin entered the US House of Representatives in 1917 as the first woman in either chamber of Congress.
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The selective service act of 1917 authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in world war 1 through conscription
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The espionage act prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.
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During the Russian revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule.
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The sedation 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 of war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.
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The 1918 influenza pandemic was the worst severe pandemic in recent history.
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The fourteen points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end world war 1.
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Schenck v. United States was a landmark decision of the us Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the espionage act of 1917.
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The 19th amendment to the United States constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to bite to citizens of the United States based off of gender. It guarantees women the right to vote.
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On March 19, 1920, the United States senate rejected for the second time the treaty of Versailles, by a vote 49-35, falling seven votes short of a two-thirds majority needed for approval.
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The teapot dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States president warren g Harding.
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In 1923, the major film company Warner Brothers is created.
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The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, also known as the Snyder Act, was an Act of the United States Congress that granted US citizenship to the indigenous peoples of the United States, called "Indians" in the Act.
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The Dawes plan was a plan in 1924 that successfully resolved the issue of World War One reparations that Germany had to pay.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross was elated as governor of Wyoming in 1925 and she was the first ever woman to be elected as governor.
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In 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes the first transatlantic flight. It was from New York to Paris. It was a solo flight and it took him 33 1/2 hours.
