CHRONOLOGY

1914

  • U.S. Marines occupy Veracruz, Mexico.

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated.

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

  • Germany attacks Russia and France.

  • Great Britain declares war on Germany.

    • 1915

  • German U-boat sinks Lusitania.

    • 1916

  • Pancho Villa attacks Americans in Mexico and New Mexico.

  • Wilson reelected.

    • 1917

  • Zimmermann telegram intercepted.

  • United States declares war on Germany.

  • Committee on Public Information created.

  • Selective Service Act enacted.

  • Espionage Act and Trading with the Enemy Act enacted.

    • 1918

  • Wilson gives Fourteen Points speech.

  • Russia arranges separate peace with Germany.

  • Sedition Act enacted.

  • U.S. Marines see first major combat.

  • Armistice signed ending World War I.

    • 1919

  • Paris peace conference begins.

  • Treaty of Versailles signed.

  • Wave of labor strikes occurs.

    • 1920

  • American Civil Liberties Union founded.

  • Prohibition begins.

  • Palmer raids ordered.

  • Senate votes against ratification of Treaty of Versailles.

  • American women get the vote.

  • Warren G. Harding elected president.