They had midterm elections almost exactly 100 years ago, also. The ruling Democratic Party was wiped out and would not recover for twelve years. It was the only election held during the war, and was the election held after the Presidential election of 1916 in which President Wilson promised to keep us out of that war. We went to war right after he was sworn in. The next election would see one of the anti-war protesters run for President from jail, that being Eugene Debs. Civil liberties were suppressed, many people went to jail and massive amounts of men were mobilized and drafted. Women (some who went to jail during the war) finally pushed a constitutional amendment over the goal line to make them full citizens and able to vote. Anarchist bombs were going off, German sabotage was happening and inflation was punishing the working class which promised not to strike during the war, but once it ended there were strikes everywhere. Buffalo and the Lackawanna area saw lots of strikes, some turned violent and the Palmer raids actually reached into lackawanna.
It was a crazy time!
It was just all so stupid. Germans killing Frenchmen, and for what? This was supposed to be the civilized part of the world!