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He was a member of the Democratic Party and was the president of Princeton University. He also served as the Governor of New Jersey and won the 1912 election.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary.
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia to start war
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One month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated, Austria-Hungary declares war.
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Germany declares war on Russia. France and Belgium begin full mobilization
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German troops overran Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France in six weeks starting in May 1940
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The British established a naval blockade of Germany immediately on the outbreak of war, issuing a comprehensive list of contraband that all but prohibited American trade with the central powers
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British ocean liner, RMS Lusitania was sunk by the German 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland. This sunken liner killed 1,198
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6 million African Americans were moved out of the rural southern United States to the northeast, Midwest, and west
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“Since 1917, when representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman to serve in congress, a total of 393 women have served as United States representatives, delegates, or senators.”
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An act that authorized the US federal government to raise a national army for service in WW1 through conscription.
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The Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist party of the Soviet Union.
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The virus was spread world wide throughout 1918-1919
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This speech outlined his vision of how to end the world war in order for another world war to happen again.
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An act that permitted the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone who was considered a threat or publishing “malicious” writing against the US government
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Germany initially surrendered and then all nations agreed to stop the war
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A landmark decision in the Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during WW1
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The treaty formally ended World War 1
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The amendment stated the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of sex
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A bribery scandal involving the administration of the US President Warren G. Harding
