1920-1930

By clairefoltz

  • The League of Nations is established with the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles

  • Women are given the right to vote

  • A national quota system on the amount of incoming immigrants is established

  • The first Miss America Pageant is held New Jersey

  • Reader's Digest is founded

  • The Teapot Dome Scandal begins

  • Time Magazine is published for the first time

  • The first sound on film motion picture is shown

  • The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps

  • The Grand Ole Opry transmits its first radio broadcast

  • The first flight to the North Pole and back occurs

  • The Great Mississippi Flood occurs

  • The first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on film occurs

  • Amelia Earhart becomes the first women to fly over the Atlantic Ocean

  • Martin Luther King is born

  • The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is signed by President Herbert Hoover