1920s Time Line

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  • 18th Amendment

    The 18th Amendment passed congress

  • Volstead Act

    The bill was vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson, largely on technical grounds because it also covered wartime prohibition, but his veto was overridden by the House on the same day, October 28, 1919, and by the Senate one day later. 1.to prohibit intoxicating beverages,
    2.to regulate the manufacture, production, use and sale of high-proof spirits for other than beverage purposes, and

  • Treaty of Versailles

    The League of Nations holds its first meeting and accomplishes the rafitification of the Treaty of Versailles, ending the first World War. .
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  • Prohibition

    18th Amendment went in effect preventing sales of Alcohol

  • First Radio Broadcast

    The first radio news program was broadcast August 31, 1920 by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan, which survives today as all-news format station WWJ under ownership of the CBS network.

  • Red scare on wall street

    Wall Street was bombed near Federal Hall and the JP Morgan Bank. Although both anarchists and Communists were suspected as being responsible for the bombing, ultimately no individuals were indicted for the bombing in which 38 died and 141 were injured.

  • Electoral vote

    landslide victory for Warren G. Harding in both the Electoral College and popular vote returns the Republican Party to the White House. Harding gained over 16 million popular votes to Democratic candidate James M. Cox's 9 million and won the Electoral contest with a 404 to 127 landslide

  • Quota system

    A national quota system on the amount of incoming immigrants was established by the United States Congress in the Emergency Quota Act, curbing legal immigration.

  • Congressional resolution

    Congressional resolution by both houses is signed by President Warren G. Harding, declaring peace in World War I hostilities with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. The treaties would be executed one month later.

  • Reader's Digest

    Reader's Digest is founded and the first issue published by Dewitt and Lila Wallace.

  • Armaments Congress Ends

    The Armaments Congress ends. It would lead to an agreement, the Five Power Disarmament Treaty, between the major world powers of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States, to limit naval construction, outlaw poison gas, restrict submarine attacks on merchant fleets and respect China's sovereignty.

  • Time Magazine

    Time Magazine is published for the first time.

  • Death of President

    President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska, and is succeeded by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge would oppose the League of Nations, but approved of the World Court.

  • Winter Olympics

    The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix

  • IBM

    The IBM corporation is founded.

  • Federal Bureau of investigation

    J. Edgar Hoover is appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

  • John W.Davis

    Calvin Coolidge wins his first election as President, retaining the White House for the Republican Party over his Democratic foe, John W. Davis, and Progressive Party candidate Robert M. LaFollette. The Electoral margin was 382 to 136 (Davis) to 13 (LaFollette).

  • Scopes Trail

    high school biology teacher John Scopes was accused of violating the state's Butler Act that made it unlawful to teach evolution.

  • Sacco and Vanzetti

    After several failed appeals over six years, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in the electric chair