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On July 8th Austria/Hungary declared war on Serbia, and the great power of Europe peace crumbled and collapsed -
The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was launched in 1906 and held the blue ribbon appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908. On may 7th, 1915, a German submarine was off the Irish coast when they launched a torpedo that hit the ship and sunk it. 1,195 perished including 123 Americans -
Known as the greatest Northward migration or the black migration, it was the movement of 6 million African American out of the rural south between 1916 to 1970 -
President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany after the attack of the Lusitania -
The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I. -
prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense -
The Russian communist revolutionary and politician Vladimir Lenin began his active revolutionary activity in 1892, and continued till assuming power in the Russian Revolution of 1917. -
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. -
Great Influenza epidemic or the 1918 influenza pandemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza -
Despite Woodrow Wilson chairing the committee which drafted the Treaty of Versailles Covenant, America voted against becoming official members of the League of Nations in 1919. -
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. -
The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. -
Adolf Hitler delivered the Nazi Party Platform to a large crowd in Munich. -
President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascends to presidency. -
December 21, 1928 - The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder, later named Hoover Dam. -
The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression. -
The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. The first 100 story building