World War I Events

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  • Woodrow Wilson Presidency Term

    28th President of the United States; Term ended 1921

  • WW1 Begins

    Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire (Central Powers) ~VS~ Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan, and the U.S (Allied Powers)
  • Lusitania Sinks

    Lusitania Sinks

    Sunk by a German torpedo; played major role in turning public against Germany

  • Great Migration Beginning

    The Relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the Northern cities
  • First Woman in Congress

    First Woman in Congress

    Jeannette Pickering Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives from Montana; she was a women’s activist and politician

  • Lenin leads Russian Revolution

    Advocated for direct rule by workers and peasants; organized soldiers and sailors into the Red Guards to then attack government buildings

  • Selective Service Act

    Allowed the United Stated federal government to raise an army through “The Draft”; ended with the war

  • Influenza Epidemic

    The first of two pandemics involving the H1N1 influenza (flu) virus

  • Wilson’s 14 Points

    A speech that illustrated the principles of peace to be used for peace negotiations to end World War I

  • Espionage Act

    Prohibited ill speech towards America’s involvement in the war and conveying information intended to interfere with US and the war effort

  • Sedition Act

    Extended the Espionage Act to cover broader range of offenses like speech or negative speech of government and war effort

  • WW1 Ends

    Ended with the formal surrender of Germany. Germany and the Allied Nations signed the Treaty of Versailles, officially ending the war.

  • Schenck vs US

    Court Case on whether the Espionage Act violated the 1st Amendment; rules the Act as constitutional, and stated free speech was not an absolute right
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    WOMEN CAN VOTE

  • U.S Senate Rejects Treaty LD Versailles

    Rejected mainly due to objection to the League of Nations; the U.S would never join the League of Nations

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Bribery Scandal involving the administration of Pres. Warren G. Harding ending; secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the Secretary of the Interior

  • World Series on the Radio

    Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time. The New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.

  • Death of President Warren G. Harding

    President from March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923

  • Publication of the Great Gatsby

    Published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Klansman March

    Klansman March

    40,000 Ku Klux Klansman March on Washington, filling up Pennsylvania Avenue
  • Mickey Mouse is Born

    Mickey Mouse is Born

    Walt Disney's “Steamboat Willie” premieres, introducing the world to a new animated character: Mickey Mouse.

  • The Great Migration Ends

    Before migration, 9 of 10 African Americans lived in the South; after migration, less than half of the country’s African Americans lived in the South