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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
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“The Great War”. What would become to be the first of two world wars waged. The event started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated. His murder lead to a war across most of Europe.
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A British passenger ship that was first launched in 1906. It was built for transatlantic passenger trade, and it was known for its luxury and speed.It was sunk by a German torpedo in WW1 killing 1200 people.
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The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970.
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Jeannette Rankin was an American politician and women’s rights advocate from Montana. As a part of the Republican Party she was elected to the House of Representatives as the first woman to hold federal office.
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Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party), which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the revolution, Lenin headed the new Soviet government that formed in Russia. He became the leader of the USSR upon its founding in 1922.
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This act required all men from the ages 21 to 30 to register for military service and gave the US President the power to draft soldiers.
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The act prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the US or an advantage of any foreign nation.
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The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more than 50 million people worldwide. ... “Spanish flu”, as the infection was dubbed, hit different age-groups, displaying a so-called “W-trend”, typically with two spikes in children and the elderly. However, healthy young adults were also affected.
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The Fourteen Points were a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress on January 8, 1918, outlining his vision for ending World War I in a way that would prevent such a conflagration from occurring again.
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In one of the first tests of freedom of speech, the House passed the Sedition Act, permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States.
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“The Great War”. What would become to be the first of two world wars waged. The event ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed.
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United States, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.”
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On Nov. 19, 1919, the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles based primarily on objections to the League of Nations.
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The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The blast killed thirty people immediately, and another ten died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds
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The 19th Amendment guarantees American women the right to vote.
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The famine resulted from the combined effects of economic disturbance because of the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War, exacerbated by rail systems that could not distribute food efficiently. One of Russia's intermittent droughts in 1921 aggravated the situation to a national catastrophe.
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It was an American political scandal that involved the secret leasing of federal oil reserves at Elk Hills, California and Teapot Dome, Wyoming during President Harding’s presidency.
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The government of the Soviet Union, formed in 1922 with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, and Byelorussian republics, was based on the one-party rule of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks), who increasingly developed a totalitarian regime, especially during the reign of Joseph Stalin.
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The immigration act was a United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia, set quotas on the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere, and provided funding and an enforcement mechanism to carry out the longstanding ban on other immigrants.
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Scopes Trial, a high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The trial’s proceedings helped to bring the scientific evidence for evolution into the public sphere while also stoking a national debate over the veracity of evolution that continues to the present day.
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The General Strike of 1926 was the largest industrial dispute in Britain's history. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) called the strike to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners. It took place over nine days, from 4 May until 12 May 1926.
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The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970.
