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Civil rights activist: Rosa Parks is born on February 4, 1913
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World War I begins in 1914 when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. United States, Germany, Austria, and Hungary sign peace treaties in 1921.
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The real Chef Boyardee, Ettore “Hector” Boiardi, directed the catering at President Woodrow Wilson’s wedding reception.
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Germany shot a torpedo at the United Kingdom’s ship killing 1,197 including 128 Americans also aboard.
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first woman elected to Congress, was sworn into the House.
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Required all men between 21-45 to register for military service.
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Prohibited obtaining any information that gave reason to believe that the information may be used as a disadvantage to the United States/advantage of another nation.
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Lenin led a Russian revolution
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A virus brought back from the First World War which killed between 17-100 million people.
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A statement, delivered by Woodrow Wilson, of principles that were to be used for negotiating peace/ending World War I.
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Made it a crime a crime to publish any disloyal or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States.
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A decision by the Supreme Court concerning the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I.
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Because President Wilson failed to take senators' opinions into consideration, the treaty was rejected.
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The Band-Aid was invented by Thomas Anderson and Johnson & Earle Dickson for his wife Josephine, who burned herself often while cooking.
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Prohibits the government from denying the right to vote to citizens based on gender, in other words, it gave women the right to vote.
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A scandal involving the President Warren G. Harding and the members of his cabinet from 1921 to 1923.
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Mickey Mouse made his movie debut in a 7 minute film by Walt Disney.
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Construction began in 1930 but the building was opened to the public on May 1, 1931.