was African American

Lynching was another scare tactic of the Klan, although far more frightening by actually taking the lives of men representing the unwanted groups of the Klan. 

The second wave of the Klan began in 1915, many pointing to D.W. Griffith's film Birth of a Nation as a catalyst for the rebirth of the Klan.

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Following the abrupt shift induced by the Civil War in the South, most importantly, the dismantling of slavery, the Klan started as a means to reestablish white supremacy.

With the passing of the Wartime Prohibition Act in 1918 by Congress as a means to conserve valuable grain for the troops.

prohibition

Focused on the prohibition of American's alcohol consumption as a source of alcoholism and family violence throughout the United States, the movement gained traction during the early Twentieth Century

James Vernon "Pinky" Wilson a native of Florence.

Woodrow Wilson's famous Fourteen Points speech

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Many of its service members threatened mutiny as the only way to coax Germany to withdraw from this bloody war, and its people pushed to remove the monarch in power, Wilhelm II, in favor of becoming a republic and officially withdrawing from war.

Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensives

German Zeppelin

"Hun" -the British slang for German soldiers- or "Tommy" -the slang used for British soldiers- looked like. 

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In retaliation, Great Britain and Germany, in efforts to blockade the other country's trade, would blockade US trade ships as well.

The sides at this point were clearly drawn. France, Great Britain and Russia were allied producing what would be known as the Triple Entente. Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the failing Ottoman Empire, became the Central Powers. This would not be just a war among the great powers, but would include their colonies as well. The great war had begun.

In an almost domino effect, Austria's request to Serbia to acquiesce and submit to Austro-Hungarian control was met by the Serbs with silence, resulting in Russia coming to Serbia's aid. This led to Germany reaffirming its relationship with Austria-Hungary in support, which lead to Russia mobilizing an army along the Austrian border, which prompted Germany to issue an ultimatum to Russia and thus mobilize its own troops . War had quickly cropped up in the span of a month. Germany would go on to declare war against France and invade Belgium, which would prompt Great Britain to honor its alliance to protect the country of Belgium's neutrality and declare war against Germany. 

The political climate among the many ethnicities within the Austria-Hungarian Empire was particularly heady in the Balkan Region.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian Empire,  by the Serbian nationalist group the Black Hand resulted in a world war not because of the importance of Ferdinand to Austria-Hungary, but because his death brought to the forefront the vine of alliances across the major European powers. 

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