WWI Timeline

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  • Lusitania

    Lusitania
    A British ocean liner, and for a short while, the world’s largest passenger ship. Lusistania sunk on May 7th, 1915.

  • Wilson’s Presidency Term

    Wilson’s Presidency Term
    28th President of the United States. Term ended: 1921

  • First Woman Elected to Congress

    First Woman Elected to Congress
    Jeannette Pickering Rankin was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana.

  • The Great Migration

    The Great Migration
    The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the South, and into the North, Northeast, and West. Ended: 1970

  • Selective Service Act

    Selective Service Act
    This act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through

  • Espionage Act

    Espionage Act
    This act made it a federal offense to use any sort of speech that, “any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States”.

  • Lenin Led a Russian Revolution

    Lenin Led a Russian Revolution
    Vladimir Lenin was leader of the Bolshevik party, and was the first leader of the Russian government, creating the Soviet Union.

  • Influenza Epidemic

    Influenza Epidemic
    The Spanish Pandemic was an unusually deadly virus.

  • Wilson’s 14 Points

    Wilson’s 14 Points
    Wilson’s 14 Points was a speech made in order to negotiate peace and end WWI.

  • Sedition Act

    Sedition Act
    An extension of the Espionage Act of 1917 to include broader offenses.

  • Schenck v. U.S.

    Schenck v. U.S.
    Court Case debating the enforcement of the Espionage Act.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    The amendment which allowed women to vote.

  • US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles

    US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
    The U.S. declines the offer to join the Treaty of Versailles, as well as the League of Nations.

  • Changes to the Constitution

    The U.S. Constitution was amended twice in a single year.

  • KKK Returns

    The Ku Klux Klan is a genocidal terrorist group, that was founded during the Reconstruction, and was later revisited in 1920.

  • First Radio Station

    The very first radio station was born, and began broadcasting live results from the presidential election.

  • League of Nations

    League of Nations
    The League of Nations was established.

  • Terrorist Attack

    America survived their worst terrorist attack.

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal
    A bribery scandal involving President Warren G. Harding. End date: 1923