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Lusitania attacked and sunk
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Start of the Great Migration
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First women elected to Congress
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Selective Service act
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Schenk vs US Supreme Court Case
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Vladimer Lenin led a Russian Revolution
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Influenza Epidemic
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Wilsons 14 Points
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Espionage Act
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Sedition Act
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US rejects Treaty of Versailles
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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19th Amendment
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The American Professional Football League is created
Four teams decided for form the American Professional Football League and agreed to several rules; that they would not sign college players or players contracted to other teams and that there would be a salary cap. Eleven team representatives showed up, elected Jim Thorpe as President, and agreed to form the league, although there would be no fixed schedule, minimum or maximum amount of games, and the winner would be determined in a vote at the end of the year. -
Revival of the Ku Klux Klan
In 1921 a revival of the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) took place. The KKK was targeting Catholics, blacks, and Jews with its terrorism. -
President Wilsons Term
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First Miss America Pageant
The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It is won by Margaret Gorman for the title of the Golden Mermaid trophy, later dubbed Miss America. -
The first sound on film motion picture Phonofilm
Lee de Forest, an inventor schooled at the Yale Scientific School, had been interested in the process of sound on film since 1913. It would have great impact on the development of radio, a fact that de Forest promoted, calling himself the Father of Radio. In 1918, his move into sound on film began to take shape. A drawing emerged, with patents filed for his sound on film process four years prior to the first public showing. DeForest Phonofilm would record sound on film in parallel lines. -
The first Winter Olympic Games are held
The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France with sixteen nations sending athletes to participate, including the United States, which won four medals. Norway, with four gold and eighteen medals total had the most in both categories. The Winter Olympic Games have been held since this year, except during World War II.
