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Woodrow Wilson was president for March 4, 1913 to March 4, 1921. During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson campaign for The United State to be neutral in the war.
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World War I was also known as the Great War. It began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. The war lasted until 1918.
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A German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned luxury steamship Lusitania, killing over 128 Americans. this made the president consider to join the war against Germany.
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The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West. It all started in 1916.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin was the first woman ever elected to Congress. On the morning of April 2, 1917, the day the 65th Congress was set to convene, prominent women’s suffrage organizations hosted a breakfast in Rankin’s honor at the Shoreham Hotel.
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Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which was signed on May 18, 1917. The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for the military.
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Espionage Act prohibits attending any information relating to the nations defense with bad intent.
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The Russian Revolution started during the ending of WW1. It removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation of the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The revolution happened in stages through two separate time, one in February and one in October. The new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, would solidify its power only after three years of civil war.
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The Fourteen Points were a proposal made by Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress on January 8, 1918, outlining his vision for ending World War I in a way that would prevent such a big war from occurring again.
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The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. In March 3 1918 was the first know case in the United States.
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The Sedition Act of 1918, 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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Schenck v. United States, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that 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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In 1919 the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration.
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The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920. It declares that “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. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
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September 17, 1920 - The American Professional Football League is formed in 1920. It would change its name to the National Football League in 1922.
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Teapot dome scandal, involved secretary Interior, Albert Fall who accepted money from private oil companies. On April 15, 1922, Wyoming Democratic senator John Kendrick introduced a resolution that set in motion one of the most significant investigations in Senate history.
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In 1921, the International Olympic Committee gave its patronage to a Winter Sports Week to take place in 1924 in Chamonix, France. This event had 10,004 paying spectators.
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First success in the invention of television occurs by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth. The complete electronic television system would be patented three years later on August 26, 1930.
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The animated mouse first appeared in 1928 at the Colony Theatre at New York City. The film, Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," was the first animated cartoon with talking pictures.
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The infamous mob hit became known as the St. Valentine's Day massacre. Five known members of George 'Bugs' Moran's gang, one associate and a garage worker were killed.
