Woodrow Wilson Timeline: Presidential Timeline of Important Events |
 | 1913 | Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated as 28th President of the United States |
 | 1913 | The Federal Reserve Act, aka the Currency Bill, or the Owen-Glass Act, designed to safeguard the US economy, allowed for a regional Federal Reserve System, operating under a supervisory board in Washington |
 | 1913 | May: John D. Rockefeller donates $100 million to begin the Rockefeller Foundation on May 14, 1913 |
 | 1914 | World War I (1914-1918) was triggered on 28 June 1914 by the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian terrorist group, called The Black Hand. The adversaries involved 2 opposing alliances - the Allies and the Central Powers |
 | 1914 | August: The Panama Canal was officially opened |
 | 1915 | The Rocky Mountain National Park is established in Colorado. January 26, 1915 |
 | 1915 | 1915 US Congress Authorized "Mounted Inspectors" along the US-Mexico Border |
 | 1915 | The Sinking of the Lusitania: The British passenger ocean liner, the Lusitania, sailed on May 1st 1915 from New York bound for Liverpool. It was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915. This action was instrumental in bringing the US into WW1 |
 | 1915 | President Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt in a Washington, D.C. on December 18, 1915 |
 | 1916 | July: Saboteurs explode an ammunition depot and destroys docks at Toms River Island near Jersey City followed by the destruction of a munitions plant in Kingsland, New Jersey |
 | 1916 | July: Woodrow Wilson is re-elected President of the United States |
 | 1916 | The National Defense Act is passed in response to threats at home and deteriorating relations between Germany and the United States |
 | 1917 | The US entered WWI by declaring war on Germany in 1917 on April 06, 1917 |
 | 1917 | The Espionage and Sedition Acts made it a crime to interfere with the operations of the military to promote the success of its enemies and prohibited many forms of speech perceived as disloyal to the US |
 | 1918 | The Fourteen Points speech was given to Congress on January 8, 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson |
 | 1918 | May: The Selective Service Act is passed requiring all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register with locally administered draft boards for a federal draft conscription lottery |
 | 1918 | November 11, 1918: End of WW I (the Great War) when the Armistice was signed in Redonthes, France |
 | 1919 | The devastating world-wide influenza epidemic reaches its height in the US |
 | 1919 | The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One |
 | 1919 | Prohibition: The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed January 16, 1919 which banned on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of all alcoholic beverages across the nation. The Prohibition era lasted from 1920 - 1933. |
 | 1920 | The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed May 19, 1919 which guaranteed American women the right to vote |
 | 1921 | His presidency and term in office ends. The next US President was Warren G. Harding |
Presidential Timeline of important Events |