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Wright brothers fly fisrt airplane. First story-sequence motion pictures.
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Henry Ford introduce Model T
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W.C. Handy's "st.Louis Blues" debuts
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Council of National Defence established
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Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare. Zimmermann note. Railroads placed under federal control. United states enters WWI. Espionage Act of 1917. Wilson calls for "peace without victory". Bolshevik revolution.
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Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
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Wilson proposes Fourteen Points. Sedition Act of 1918. Battle of Chateau-Thierry. Second Battle of the Marne. Meuse-Argonne offensive.
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Armistice ends WWI. Worldwide influenza pandemic
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Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles. Wilson's pro-League tour and collapse. Eighteen Amendemnet(prohibition of alcohol) passed. First Senate defeat of Versailles Treaty.
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Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition). Volstead Act. Seattle general strike. Anderson publishes Winesburg, Ohio.
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American Legion founded. Chicago race riot.
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RED SCARE
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Final Senate defeat of Versailles Treaty after reconsideration. Nineteenth Amendment (women suffrage) passed. Harding defeats Cosx for presidency.
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Radio broadcasting begins. Fitzgerald publishes THIS SIDE OF PARADISE. Lewis publishes MAIN STREET.
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Esch-Cummins Transportation Act. Merchant Marine Act
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SACCo-Vanzetti trial. Emergency Quota Act. Bureau of the Budget created.
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Veterans Bureau created. Capper-Volstead Act
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Five-Power Naval Treaty signed. Four-Power and Nine-Power Treaties on the Far East. Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law
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Lewis publishes BABBITT. Eliot publishes The Wstes land
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Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed.
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Adkin v. Children's Hospital. Teapot Dome scandal. Harding dies; Coolidge assumes presidency.
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Immigration Act of 1924
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Adjusted Compensation Act for veterans. Dawes Plan for international finance. U.S. troops leave Dominican Republic. Coolidge wins three-way presidential election.
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Scopes trial. Florida real estate boom. Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. Breiser publishes An American Tragedy.
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Hughes publishes The Waery Blues. Hemingway publishes The sun aslo rises
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U.S. troops occupy Nicaragua
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Lindbergh flies solo across Atlantic. First talking motion pictures, The Jazz Singer. Show Boat opens on Broadway. Sacco and Vanzetti excuted
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Eugene O'Neill's Strange Onterlude debuts on Broadway.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact. Hoover defeats Smith for presidency. Hoover makes goodwill tour of Latin America.
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Faulkner publishes The sound and the Fury. Heminway publishes A Farewell to Arms.
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Agricultural Marketing Act sets up Federal Farm Board. Stock-market crash.
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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Japanese invade Manchuria
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AL Capone imprisoned
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) established. Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act. Bonus Army dispersed from Washington, D.C.