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In the 1910's and 1920's a Christian Fundamentalist movement swept across rural areas.
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The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the war.
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The Prohibition Amendment is ratified in 1919.
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In 1919 and 1920 police round up suspected foreign born radicals and expelled them from the United States.
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The League of Nations is formed in an attempt to create peace.
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During the 1920's an African American cultural awakening called the Harlem Renaissance begins
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The Jazz Age begins
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist Party in 1921
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T.S. Elliot publishes The Wasteland in 1922 which portrays the modern life as spiritually empty and barren.
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After a guerrilla war against British forces, Britain agreed for most of Ireland to be self-ruled.
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A biology teacher, John T. Scopes, is tried and found guilty of teaching evolution in his classroom.
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Germany is admitted to the league of nations after the war.
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The Stock Market crashes causing economies world wide to suffer
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France builds the Maginot Line to protect themselves from a German Invasion.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president of the United States in 1932
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The Eighteenth Amendment is repealed in 1933
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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany in 1933
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Germany leaves the League of Nations in 1933.
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In 1934 Enrico Fermi discovers the process of splitting atoms which leads to the development of the atomic bomb
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German President Hindenburg dies in 1934.
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.
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Germany invades the Rhineland in 1936
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Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia in 1936.
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Civil war erupts in Spain in 1936.
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Franco declared head of Spanish State in 1936
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Germany mobilizes their military in 1938.
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Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich to prevent future conflict.
