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1920s Timeline (Michelle, Cyndy)
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League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson made a great contribution of creating his Fourteen points in an effort to avoid future conflicts after the First World War. While this reveals the international collaboration and America’s leadership and its rising as the superpower today, the United States never joined the League. Unfortunately, problems with its design and US’s failure to join made it hard to prevent World War II. -
Prohibition of Alcohol Consumption Begins in USA
In 1920, the US prohibited any liquor that had alcoholic content of over 0.5 percent in an effort to suppress growing social rebellion. This law is seen as one of the primary causes of increased criminal activity, bribery, and corruption in big cities. Not only does the implementation of this law indicate the extent of social change at the time, but it also reveals the rebellious side of Americans as they attempted to gain more access to alcohol a -
Negro National League Begins Its First Season
Negro National Baseball Players Association was created “to honor and celebrate the significant contribution of Negro Leagues players to baseball and American history, to collect and preserve that history, to educate others so that Negro League players may be a source of pride and inspiration for generations to come, and to support and promote the general and financial well being of former Negro Leagues players.” This being their mission statement, we see that the US took a step closer towards e -
Changing Roles for Women: Flappers
From women expected to be the “guardians of morality” and full of innocence especially in youth to “modesty, reticence, and chivalry going out of style and women no longer wanting to be lady-like,” we are able to observe that rebellion and changes took place during the 1920s. The culture shifted and new trends came into style: short hair, make-up, smoking, drinking, dancing to jazz music, and driving away to chase freedom, etc. Women began to truly seek freedom and equality in daily lives. -
US Grants Women the Vote
As women (primarily) continued to break social boundaries regarding manners and morals, they furthered this change to gain greater political power. The voting rights were acquired though thousands of women raising awareness through parades and other suffrage movements. Although the women were ridiculed, spat on and beaten, it only led to even a larger group of participants in such event. The dedication of these women that started in 1913 paid off in 1920, as the 19th Amendment to the Constitutio -
Motion Picture Association Was Founded
The founding of Motion Picture Association is important in the history of US and the 1920s because it represents the six big Hollywood studios and still remains as the fourth-largest industry. It was started in New York and relocated to Hollywood as an expanding industry that the society paid a lot of attention to, wanting to achieve more freedom in life. In current times, the Motion Picture Association is an icon that exports American culture around the world. -
US Congress Gives Indigenous People Citizenship
The US finally gave citizenship to the indigenous people in 1924. In appearance, this step seems like a very significant step towards equality among the residents of the United States. However, in reality, it was merely a tactic that the American Congress used in an attempt to assimilate the indigenous people. -
Disney Creates Mickey Mouse
The creation of this Academy-Award winning character marks the birth of one of the most internationally recognized American icons. As an icon of the Walt Disney company, a company that created innumerable famous animated movies, Mickey Mouse is still not only an icon of a company and of America, but also a symbol of growing technology and changing artistic perspectives of the time. -
First Academy Awards
The first academy awards took place during an academy banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with 270 people. The guest tickets cost $5 and the night was filled with speeches and Douglas Fairbanks, the Academy President, handing out the statuettes. The night was pretty iconic and significant because it represents the film industry and notes outstanding directors, actors, and writers of the times. More details about the first academy awards can be found on http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyaw -
Stock Market Crash/ ”Black Thursday”
This event was the tipping point that marked to the beginning of the Great Depression and the “dirty thirties”. It was the symbol of untimely optimism of the Americans and did not end until 1947 in the United States. It cannot be missed out as one of the icons of America because of its direct relation to one of the worst economic recession of the US.
