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(March 4th, 1913 to March 4th, 1921), during the outbreak of World War l, President Wilson led the US in it's declaration of neutrality. However, the stance began to be tested when Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare. Shortly afterwards, four American citizens were killed in the three U-boats attacks.
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(1914-1918), one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Began with the assignation of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. More than 16 million people, soldiers, and civilians were killed.
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( May 7th, 1915), Was a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England, sunk during the ww1 due to the ship getting hit by a torpedo, by a German U-boat. 1,200 lives were lost, including 94 children.
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(1917-1970), the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West.
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(1917), Jeannette Rankin was the first woman in either chamber of Congress. She campaigned as a. Progressive in 1916, pledging to work for a constitutional women's suffrage and emphasizing social welfare issues.
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(May 18th, 1917), an act passed by Woodrow Wilson that required all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. Within a few months, some 10 million men across the country were registered in response to the military draft.
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(June 15th, 1917), an act that 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 US or to the advantage of any foreign nation. Still to this day it's still in effect.
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(November 6th and 7th, 1917), Russian Revolution 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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(1918-1920), a delay virus pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. It infected 500 million people, about 17-100 millions of those were resulted in death. It was about a third of the world's population at the time - in four successive waves.
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(January 8th, 1918), a proposal made by President Wilson outlining his vision for ending WWl in a way that would prevent such a configuration from occurring again. They mostly consisted of certain basic principles, such as freedom of the seas and open covenants, a variety of geographic arrangements carrying out the principle of self-determination, etc.
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( May 16th, 1918), an extension of the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.
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(March 3rd,1919), was a legal case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the US Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.”
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(November 19th, 1919), the senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended WWl, in part because President Wilson had failed to take senators objections to the agreement into consideration. They made the French treaty subject to the authority of the league, which isn’t to be tolerated
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(August 18th, 1920), 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. Congress shall have power to enforce the 17. article by appropriate legislation.
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(1921-1923) a bribery scandal involving the administration of US President Warren G. Involved secretary Interior, Albert Fall who accepted valuable gifts and large sums so money from private oil companies. Fall was the first cabinet member ever to be convicted of his crimes while in office.
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(August 2nd, 1923), President Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascends to presidency.
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(September 30th, 1927), New York Yankees star Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season, breaking his own record of 59.
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(November 6th, 1928), Herbert Hoover, running on a slogan of “A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage,” is elected to the presidency, crushing Catholic Democrat Al Smith to maintain Republican dominance of the Oval Office.
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(November 18th, 1928), Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie premieres, introducing the world to a new animated character: Mickey Mouse.
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(December 14th, 1929), in the “saint Valentine’s Day massacre,” the single bloodiest incident in a decade-long turf war between rival Chicago mobsters fighting to control the lucrative bootleggging trade, members of Al Capones gang murder six followers of rival Bugs Moran.
