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Woodrow Wilson's years as the 28th United States president
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. In June 1914, a Serbian-nationalist terrorist group called the Black Hand sent groups to assassinate the Archduke.
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The Great Migration included over 6 million African Americans trying to escape racist ideologies and practices, as well as creating new lives as American citizens.
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RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on May 7th, 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940.
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Vladimir Lenin was the most influential political figure in the development of the Russian Revolution.
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Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. (Signed by President Wilson)
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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
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The 1918 influenza pandemic was an unusual but deadly influenza epidemic, the first of the two epidemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.
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Wilson's 14 points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
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The Sedition Act of 1918, enacted during World War I, made it a crime to "willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive" language about the form of the Government of the United States.
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Schenk v. United States, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case regarding enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I.
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In 1919 the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles (ended WWI) in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration.
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The Senate refused the Treaty of Versailles that had ended World War I and provided for a new world body, championed by President Woodrow Wilson, called the League of Nations.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. (Women's Suffrage) Amendment was passed by Congress and President Woodrow Wilson.
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The Lincoln Memorial, located on the opposite end of the National Mall from the Capitol building, is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska, and is succeeded by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge.
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The first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on film occurs with the release of the animated short film, Plane Crazy.
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia.
