Chapter one
Timeline Events
Timeline Events
This year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated; The Great War Begins; Belgium is invaded by Germany.
What is 1914?
This granted women in all states the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
The Lusitania is sunk by Germany during this year.
What is 1915?
This put into law that U.S. senators would now be directly elected by the people of each state, rather than chosen by state legislatures
What is the 17th amendment?
This year saw the Zimmerman Telegram; The U.S. declare war on Germany; and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
What is 1917?
In 1918, President Wilson’s aims for the war included these directives which included a call for freedom of the seas, free trade, an end to imperialism, and self-determination for ethnic populations of Europe.
What are the fourteen points?
U.S. Population reaches 106,000,000; XIX "Women's Suffrage" Amendment Ratified; Warren G. Harding pledges a "return to normalcy all during this year.
What is 1920?
This document which formally ended hostilities between the Allied Powers and Germany was signed in the Hall of Mirrors on June 28,1919
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Year that the following occurred. Theodore Roosevelt dies; First Red Scare; Palmer Raids begin; XVIII "Prohibition" Amendment Ratified;Woodrow Wilson Suffers a stroke; Treaty of Versailles is rejected by the U.S. Senate
What is 1919?
This established the clear authority of the Congress to levy an income tax.
What is the 16th amendment?