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Wilson’s presidency
the 28th U.S. president, served in office from 1913 to 1921 and led America through World War I -
WW1
A global war that originated in Europe and lasted 4 years -
Lusitania
A British ocean liner that was sunk and killed 1,198 passengers and crew -
First women elected to Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was elected to Congress after a tough fight -
Great migration
was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
Espionage act
made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country's enemies -
Selective service act
authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription -
Lennin led a Russian revolution
leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government -
Wilson’s 14 points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I -
Influenza epidemic
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 -
Sedition act
one of the first tests of freedom of speech- extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses -
Schenck vs US
United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I -
US rejects treaty of versailles
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 -
19th amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex -
Steel strike ends
hundreds of thousands of workers like him walked off their job in steel mills all around the country -
The League of Nations
was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace -
Teapot dome scandal
a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding -
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse made his official debut in “Steamboat Willie -
Great Dépression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States -
Dust bowl
period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes caused the phenomenon
