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People (3)
Ernest Hemingway
Nobel laureate whose spare prose remade American fiction
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The Great Dissenter — Supreme Court Justice and philosopher of American law, 1902–1932
Woodrow Wilson
Progressive reformer, World War I president, and architect of the modern international order
Places (1)
The United States Virgin Islands
The Danish West Indies, bought for $25 million in 1917
Events (3)
The Zimmermann Telegram
The intercepted 1917 message that helped push America into World War I
Veterans Day
The November 11 holiday honoring all who served in the armed forces
World War I
The European catastrophe that pulled America in, remade the world order, and produced the next war
Documents (1)
Espionage Act of 1917
The Wartime Law That Criminalized Dissent — and Never Went Away
Concepts (1)
Isolationism
The foreign policy doctrine that kept America out of two world wars — until it didn't
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