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Lusitania
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that a German submarine sank in World War I, causing a major diplomatic uproar. Construction started on August 17, 1904 and it was first launched on June 7, 1906. -
Wilson's Presidency term
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WW1 timeframe
World War I, also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. -
Great Migration timeframe
Between 1916 and 1970 the Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. -
Year of first woman elected to congress
The first woman elected was Jeannette Rankin. On November 9, 1916, she was elected to the House of Representatives as Montana's Representative-at-Large to the 65th Congress; she served from 1917–1919. -
Selective Service Act
The Selective Service Act was enacted on May 18, 1917. The act allowed the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people. -
Espionage Act
Passed on June 15, 1917, 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 or to promote the success of the country’s enemies. Anyone found guilty of such acts would be subject to a fine of $10,000 and a prison sentence of 20 years. -
Lenin lead a Russian Revolution
Nov. 6, 1917, Led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d’État against Russia’s ineffectual Provisional Government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and within two days had formed a new government with Lenin as its head. -
Influenza epidemic
The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus. Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history. -
Wilson’s 14 points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
Sedition Act
On May 16, 1918 the Sedition Act was enacted. Aimed at socialists, pacifists and other anti-war activists, the Sedition Act imposed harsh penalties on anyone found guilty of making false statements that interfered with the prosecution of the war; insulting or abusing the U.S. government, the flag, the Constitution or the military; agitating against the production of necessary war materials; or advocating, teaching or defending any of these acts. -
Schenck vs. U.S
March 3, 1919, the Supreme Court ruled 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.” Charles T. Schenck was general secretary of the U.S. Socialist Party, which opposed the implementation of a military draft in the country. -
U.S Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
On Nov. 19, 1919, the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles based primarily on objections to the League of Nations. The U.S.would never ratify the treaty or join the League of Nations. The treaty is was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
19th Amendment
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. Susan B. Anthony had a large role in the creation of more rights for women. -
Baseball's World Series
Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time; the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three. With Yankee Stadium still but a gleam in club owner Jacob Ruppert's eye, 1921 witnessed the first World Series played entirely in one ballpark, the Polo Grounds. Babe Ruth led the New York Yankees into their first World Series ever in 1921. -
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. -
Mickey Mouse
Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willies premieres, introducing the world to the animated character-Mickey Mouse. Mickey's story, however, starts with a rabbit. Disney Brothers Studio was just another cog in Universal Pictures' animation machine when, in 1927, Walt Disney created a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. With his round, white face, big button nose and floppy black ears, the smiling Oswald was an instant hit and Universal ordered a series of shorts. -
Klansmen March
Forty thousand Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue. The morning of August 8, the Klansmen formed in white-robed ranks at the head of Pennsylvania Avenue. The instructions were clear – March with your visors raised and show your faces. They marched forth state by state, with large banners proclaiming their faith. -
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
The single bloodiest incident in a decade-long turf war between rival Chicago mobsters fighting to control the lucrative bootlegging trade, members of Al Capone's gang murder six followers of rival Bugs Moran. Fourmen 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.
