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Wilson was an American politician, lawyer, and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party.
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It lasted for 5 years 1914-1919
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Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on by a German U-boat killing 1,198 passengers and crew. The sinking of the ship caused United States declare war on Germany two years later.
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Jeannette Rankin added to the U.S. in 1916. A year later, she earned a second distinction by joining in voting against U.S. entry into World War I. That vote destroyed her prospects for reelection in 1918.
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The Great Migration, known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States
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The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army
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the Espionage Act essentially 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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They were led by Vladimir Lenin and believed that the new Russian government should be a Marxist communist government.
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The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world's population became infected with this virus.
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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.
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The Sedition Act of 1918 was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses.
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In 1919, for the first time, the Senate rejected a peace treaty. By a vote of 39 to 55
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the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators objections to the agreement into consideration.
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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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Women could vote
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
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Tennessee school teacher John T. Scopes trial for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution
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A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about the character Winnie-the-Pooh
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Audiences see the first motion picture with sound The Jazz Singer in 1927.
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Ford Motor Company celebrates as the 15 millionth Model T Is sold
