WWI Timeline Kiva Fitt

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    WWI digital timeline

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson wins the 1913 election
  • WWI begins

    following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand a war broke out in Europe
  • Lusitania

    British ocean liner sunk killing 1,189 passengers and crew on board
  • Jeannette Rankin

    Jeannette Rankin was the first female to be elected into the house of representatives as a republican
  • Great Migration

    Over 6 million African Americans moving out to the urban northeast and midwest of the United states which spanned over 50 years
  • Lenin led Russian revolution

    the peasants and working class revolted against Tsar Nicholas II led my Vladimir Lenin. New government created the Soviet Union.
  • Selective service act

    Men in the Unites states from 21 to 30 years were required to sign up for military service
  • Espionage act

    Made is a crime to interfere with the United States war efforts with false information
  • Influenza pandemic

    A deadly virus that infected 500 million people which at the time was one third of the worlds population
  • Wilsons 14 points

    He gave a speech about the basis for the "only possible" program for world peace negotiations.
  • Sedition act

    Made is a crime to write or publish disloyal or abusive language about the government
  • WWI ends

    with the formal surrender of Germany and all other countries agreeing to stop fighting the treaty of Versailles was signed and war ended.
  • Schenck v. United States

    legit case deciding that the first amendment should be restricted if words spoken or printed represent "clear or present danger"
  • 19th amendment passed

    The right to vote shall not be denied on account of sex.
  • Treaty of Versailles rejected

    the senate rejected the treaty as they objected the League of Nations. They never ratified the treaty or joined the league.
  • 100 million

    this was the first time a U.S census indicated a population over 100 million people.
  • Teapot dome scandal

    bribery scandal involving Warren g. Harding Administration, they were convicted of accepting bribes from oil companies from leasing reserves at teapot dome.
  • First Winter Olympics

    The first Winter Olympics was help in the French alps.
  • First female Governor

    Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated into office as governor of Wyoming.
  • Rockets

    Robert H. Goddard tests the viability of liquid fueled rockets.
  • Disney

    Mickey and Minnie Mouse show first appearance in a short film