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it is a crime for American citizens to "print, utter, or publish... any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the government. -
sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between -
The biography for President Wilson and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States -
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The u boat known as the Lusitania was blown up by the Germans. -
Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman to serve in Congress, a total of 423 women have served as U.S. Representatives, Delegates, Resident Commissioners, or Senators. -
It 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. -
(October 24 and 25 on the Julian calendar) which is why the event is often referred to as the October Revolution), leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government. -
Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. The act eventually required all men between the ages of 21 to 45 to register for military service. -
- Open diplomacy without secret treaties
- Economic free trade on the seas during war and peace
- Equal trade conditions
- Decrease armaments among all nations
- Adjust colonial claims
- Evacuation of all Central Powers from Russia and allow it to define its own independence
- Belgium to be evacuated and restored
- Return of Alsace-Lorraine region and all French territories
- Readjust Italian borders (Could not fit all 14 points size limit reached :(
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the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration. -
Charles Schenck was charged under the Espionage Act for mailing printed circulars critical of the military draft. Writing for a unanimous Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes upheld Schenck's conviction and ruled that the Espionage Act did not conflict with the First Amendment. -
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by a State on account of sex. -
The war spread this flu viruses all over the world effect everyone involved -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G -
Borden persuaded the British to let Canada and the other dominions get a place at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference and a seat in the new League of Nations -
Japan shifted from its earlier imperialistic foreign policy line to an approach based on efforts at international cooperation and restraint from intervention in China's domestic affairs. -
Fascism arose in Europe after World War I when many people yearned for national unity and strong leadership. In Italy, Benito Mussolini used his charisma to establish a powerful fascist state -
The peace terms forced upon Germany caused lingering resentment and humiliation, setting the stage for many of its citizens to search for national leadership -
negotiators from the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France, and other Allied powers agreed upon the provisions of the Paris Peace Treaties, signed in February 1947 with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland
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