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Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson is voted into office, and would go one to serve two consecutive terms.
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After the assasination of Austria’s archduke, Franz Ferdinand, Europe as for the rest of the world is plunged into a hellish war zone that lasts for four years. In that time span approximately 20 million people were killed in the war. America wouldn’t join the war up until April 6, 1917 after the Zimmerman telegraph incident.
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While on route to Liverpool, England, A german u-boat torpedoes the RMS Lusitania and sinks the civilian ship resulting in the death of more than 1,100 passengers including 120 Americans. This event significantly turned public opinion against Germany, in the United States and world abroad.
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African-Americans leave the southern states and flock up north to city’s in order to escape economic inequality, racial tension and the Jim Crow policies that segregated blacks and whites. This event is what would lead on to the Harlem renaissance in the 1920’s.
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Jannette Rankin was elected into office before women had the right to vote (19th amendment). She was representative of the state of Montana. She also was a huge supporter of women’s rights which is mainly the reason why she got elected into office, that and the fact she had the personality of a pacifist. She actually voted against America involvement in both the first and second world war.
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This act allowed the US Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. This was done so the US military could recruit, train, and bring in more troops to help with the war in Europe on the western front. The act eventually required all men between the ages of 21 to 45 to register for military service. Under the act, approximately 24 million men registered for the draft. Out of that 24 million only 2.8 million men were actually drafted to Europe.
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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 believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. Basically it was a crime for any individual to give information that was intended to harm the US armed forces progress in the war, or to promote the success of the country’s enemy.
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A coup led by Vladimir Lenin to overthrow Russia's Duma provisional government and replace it with a Communist Soviet government that would be ruled directly by councils of soldiers, peasants and workers. This Revolution would throw Russia in a brutal 5 year civil war with the Communist coming out on top and The Soviet Union being established
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A speech that was addressed to the United States congress about Wilson’s vision of world peace. It was “designed as guidelines for the rebuilding of the postwar world, the points included Wilson’s ideas regarding nations’ conduct of foreign policy, including freedom of the seas and free trade and the concept of national self-determination, with the achievement of this through the dismantling of European empires and the creation of new states.”
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A disease that first started out in an army camp in Haskell, Kansas would go on to kill at least over 50 million people worldwide. That is more than twice the casualties of WW1 which is estimated at 20 million deaths. Hospitals and Doctors were not prepared and were not well equipped enough to deal with this virus, allowing the strain to easily mutate and spread. Vaccines wouldn’t even exist until at least a decade later.
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This act imposed harsh penalties on anyone found guilty of making false statements that interfered with the prosecution of the war; insulting or abusing the U.S. government, the flag, the Constitution or the military; agitating against the production of necessary war materials; or advocating, teaching or defending any of these acts. Basically if you talked badly about America’s involvement in the war, you could be fined 10,000$ or arrested for twenty years, or both.
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A Supreme Court case that ruled 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.” What had happened was that Schenck and his political party were printing leaflets telling men to resist the military draft, so the military arrested him. The Supreme court upheld his conviction because they thought the espionage act didn’t violate the first amendment.
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Due to a bitter rivalry between Democratic president Woodrow Wilson and Republican Senate Majority leader Henry Lodge, support for the treaty of versailles was limited. Things became much more complicated when President Wilson went to Paris alone to discuss the treaty himself without consolidation by the senate. This and the issue the senate had with Wilson’s 14 points is what caused the senate to reject the peace treaty. This is the first time the United State senate rejected a peace treaty.
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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. In much simpler words, it gave women the right to vote in all legal elections in the US.
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The Teapot dome scandal, involved secretary Interior, Albert Fall who accepted valuable gifts & large sums of money from private oil companies. in exchange Fall allowed the oil companies to control government oil reserves. He was the 1st cabinet member ever to be convicted of his crimes while in office. It was only illegal because Fall accepted bribery’s in exchange for the oil reserves. The exchange itself is legal just largely looked down upon.
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After a fives year of a long and brutal civil war, the red army comes out victorious and the Soviet Union is officially established as Russia’s power of government. Vladimir Lenin would go on to act as leader of the USSR.
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After only serving as Russia’s leader for no more than a year while suffering through three strokes which paralyzed him and left him mute, Lenin falls into a coma from a brain hemorrhage and dies at the age of 54. Joseph Stalin would be his successor as the leader of the Soviet Union.
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While he was conducting experiments with bacteria, a group of mold spores flew inside a petri dish killing the bacteria inside. Fleming unaware of what happened, left the petri dish on his desk and went on vacation. It was only when he returned that he unknowingly made a major discovery. This accidental discovery would go on to create the world's first vaccines and revolutionize modern medicine as we know it today.
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On valentines day, serval alcohol bootleggers were gunned down in Chicago, Illinois from two men that supposedly disguised themselves as police officers. Many blamed Chicago's notorious gangster, Al Capone for ordering the hit but he had an Alibi saying that he was in Florida at the time. No one was ever brought to trial and to this day, this murder remains unsolved.
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After nearly a decade of people practically only buying with credit( while also not paying it back mind you) and reckless overconfidence of stocks, the stock market on Tuesday morning lost over 12.9 millions shares, and fell down by 13 percent. This day in history would be the start of the Great Depression and put the entire world in economic crisis for years.
