Usa

USA 1917-1941

  • U.S. enters World War I

  • Period: to

    First Red Scare

  • Espionage and Sedition Acts

  • Lansing-Ishii Agreement

  • U.S. Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark

  • President Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • Treaty of Versailles ends World War I

  • United States Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations

  • 18th Amendment, establishing Prohibition

  • Black Sox Scandal during the that year's World Series

  • Esch-Cummins Act

  • 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote

  • Sacco and Vanzetti arrested

  • Volstead Act

  • Warren G. Harding becomes President

  • Emergency Quota Act

  • Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

  • Herbert Hoover becomes President

  • Fordney-McCumber tariff

  • President Warren G. Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge succeeds him

  • Immigration Act Basic Law

  • J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation

  • WSM broadcasts the Grand Ole Opry for the first time.

  • NBC founded as the U.S.'s first major broadcast network

  • Sacco and Vanzetti executed

  • Charles Lindbergh makes first trans-Atlantic flight

  • Columbia Broadcasting System becomes second national radio network in the U.S.

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

  • American Samoa officially becomes a U.S. territory

  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission established

  • Johnson Act

  • National Labor Relations Act

  • Franklin Roosevelt is sworn in as President for a 2nd term.

  • Neutrality Acts

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor; U.S. enters World War II by declaring war on Japan