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Woodrow Wilson, elected in 1913, led the United States in its declaration of neutrality.
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A global war, also known as the “Great War,” from July 1914 to November 1918.
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A British Ocean Liner that had 1,915 casualties when it sunk in 1915.
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Jeannette Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate. She the first woman to hold federal office in the United States, elected in 1916.
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The relocation of more than 6 mil African American people from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970.
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This act prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to that may be used for the injury of the US or to the advantage of any foreign nation.
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Lenin began plotting to overthrow the Provisional Government. The Bolsheviks seized power of the government and proclaimed Soviet rule, making Lenin leader of the world's first communist state.
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This act required all men in the US between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.
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The House passed the Sedition Act, permitting the deportation, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat for publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the US government.
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The influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin.
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The 14 Points were a proposal made by President Wilson in a speech before Congress outlining his vision for ending WW1 in a way that would prevent such a conflagration from occurring again.
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A legal case when the US Supreme Court ruled the freedom of speech protection afforded in the Constitution's 1st Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.”
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The first time in history they rejected a peace treaty.
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The Lost Generation was the social generational cohort that came of age during WW1.
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An international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
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Women's Right to Vote.
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When Albert Fall accepted valuable gifts and money from private oil companies, and exchange Fall allowed the oil companies to control government oil reserves.
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USS Langley converted from the collier USS Jupiter was commissioned as the US Navy's first aircraft carrier.
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A treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union, signed at Rapallo, Italy. Negotiated by Germany's Walther Rathenau and the Soviet Union's Georgy V. Chicherin, it reestablished normal relations between the two nations.
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Investors traded 19 mil shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors.
