1920s and prohibition

By wizardo
  • Prohibition Begins

  • Nineteenth amendment is ratified giving women the right to vote

  • Emergency Quota Act is passed

  • Chinese Communist Party is formed

  • The BBC (British Broadcasting Company) is Formed

  • Immigration Act is passed

  • General Strike in name of coal miners begins in the UK

  • The first television is demonstrated in San Francisco by Philo Taylor Fransworth

  • Herbert Hoover is elected president of the United States

  • Wall Street Crash occurs causing the start of the Great Depression