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President Woodrow Wilson was elected and served a full term as president.
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Began on Jul. 28, 1914, ended on Nov. 11, 1918. It was originated in Europe. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire battled with France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the U.S.
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The Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania sunk.
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the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West.
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Congress woman Janette Rankin was elected to represent Montana.
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Lenin seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule.
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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.
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prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.
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it infected 500 million people – about a third of the world's population at the time – in four successive waves.
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a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress 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 landmark decision of the US Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I
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The US Senate rejected the treaty of Versailles. First peace treaty ever reflected
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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.
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a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding
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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
