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United States didn't joining the League of Nations
The League of Nations is established with the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, ending the hostilities of the first World War. Nine days later the United States Senate votes against joining the League, because they did want the country to lose its ability to determine its own policies. -
Women won the right to vote
This new amendment prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. The amendment was a culmination of the women's suffrage movement which was fought throughout the nation to achieve the vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were the original drafters of the amendment. -
Washington conference
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. -
Tariffs Up
Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, sharply raising tariff duties to protect the American market for American manufactures. The tariff boosts the domestic economy of the Roaring '20s, but it also worsens the crisis for struggling European economies like Germany's, helping to enable Adolf Hitler's rise to power there on a platform of economic grievance. -
First Winter Olympic Games
Are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France with sixteen nations sending athletes to participate, including the United States.The Winter Olympic Games have been held since this year, except during World War II. -
First woman governor
January 5, 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming. Miriam Ferguson is installed two weeks later as the second during a ceremony in Texas. -
Air Commerce Act is passed
provide aid and assistance to the airline industry, plus federal oversight under the Department of Commerce for civil air safety. -
Hoover Elected as President
Herbert Hoover, running on a slogan of "A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage," is elected to the presidency, crushing Catholic Democrat Al Smith to maintain Republican dominance of the Oval Office. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
In Chicago, Illinois, gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivals and citizens in the act known as the -
Great Depression
Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history.
