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President Wilson served as the 28th president until 1921. Legacy he lift was as an advocate for democracy, progressivism and world peace.
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World War 1 was known as the Great War. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. The war concluded in 1918 resulting in more than 16 million casualties of soldiers and civilians.
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The Lusitania ship sank within 20 minutes of being hit by a German torpedo strike. The ship was the most luxurious and fastest to have sailed, like the Titanic. 1,198 of the 1959 people aboard died.
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The migration lasted until 1970 that relocated more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West.
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First ever woman in congress was Rankin, Jeannette who served 2 terms in the House which coincided with World War I and World War II. Rankin strived to expand voting rights for women.
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Lenin served as head of government of Soviet Russia. He took advantage of the unstable new government of Russia and overthrew it.
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Congress passed this act to authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
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Congress passed act that made it a federal crime for any person to interfere with or attempt to undermine the U.S. armed forces during a war, or in any way assist the war efforts of the nation's enemies.
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Proposal made by President Wilson in a speech outlining his vision for ending World War I in a way that would prevent such a conflagration from occurring again.
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A Spanish flu that lasted 2 years infecting over 500 million people. Spread world wide about one-third of the world's population became infected with this virus.
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Extended the Espionage Act of 1917. Covered a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion from war effort and government.
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A legal case in the U.S. Supreme Court, 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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Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration.
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The 19th Amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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Jim Thorpe as President, and agreed to form the league that contained eleven teams. The franchise fee to join was $100
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The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of U.S. of President Warren G. Harding in 1921 to 1923.
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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.
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Hoover the 31st President slogan was "A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage". The republican held office during the onset of the Great Depression.
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Walt Disney announced the world to a new animated character: Mickey Mouse. The steamboat willie was Mickey's first appearance.
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One of the biggest crashes in history. The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression.
