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Wilson’s Presidency (Start)
The presidency of Woodrow Wilson began on March 4, 1913 when Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1921. -
WWI (Start)
The First World War originating in Europe. At the time it was called the war to end all wars. More people died of sickness than the war directly. It ended on the 11 of November 1918. -
The Second Battle of Ypres
The Second Battle of Ypres and the first chlorine gas attack. A terrifying chapter in modern warfare began on April 22, 1915, when German troops released 160 tons of chlorine gas at the Second Battle of Ypres. -
The Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide was the systematic mass murder and expulsion of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians carried out in Turkey and adjoining regions by the Ottoman government between 1914 and 1923. -
The sinking of the RMS Lusitania
On May 7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18) erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England. Over 1100 passengers died. -
The Battle of Hooge
The Battle of Hooge represented one of the first major employments of the flamethrower, one of the most feared weapons introduced during World War I. Eleven days before the battle, British infantry had captured the German-occupied village of Hooge, located near Ypres in Belgium, by detonating a large mine. -
The Great Migration (Start)
The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West. -
The Battle of Verdun (start)
The Battle of Verdun – Longest Battle of World War 1. The battle of Verdun is the largest and longest battle between German and French troops during the First World War on the Western Front, from February 21 to December 18, 1916. -
Russian Revolution
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary and head of the Bolshevik Party who rose to prominence during the Russian Revolution, one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. -
First women elected to US congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. -
US enters WWI
The date of US entry into WW1 was April 6, 1917 when the nation was drawn into World War 1 on the side of the Allies. The United States of America entered the conflict, two and a half years after the war had begun on July 28, 1914, and declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. -
The Selective Service Act (enactment)
The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. -
The Espionage Act
The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law passed shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It was intended to prohibit interference with military operations or recruitment, to prevent insubordination in the military, and to prevent the support of United States enemies during wartime. -
Influenza
The 1918 influenza pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus, with the second being the swine flu in 2009. -
Wilson’s 14 Points
Wilson’s 14 Points were designed to undermine the Central Powers’ will to continue and to inspire the Allies to victory. The 14 Points were broadcast throughout the world and were showered from rockets and shells behind the enemy’s lines. -
The Sedition Act
The Sedition Act of 1918 was an Act of the United States Congress that extended 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. -
Schenck v. United States
Schenck v. United States, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. -
Senate rejection of treaty of Versailles
On Nov. 19, 1919, the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles based primarily on objections to the League of Nations. The U.S. would never ratify the treaty or join the League of Nations. -
19th amendment (ratification)
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage ending almost a century of protest. -
The Teapot Dome scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923.
