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Treaty of Versailles
The League of Nations holds its first meeting and accomplishes the rafitification 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 -
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1920's timeline
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Women VOTE
Women are given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States constitution grants universal women's suffrage. Also known as the Susan B. Anthony amendment, in recognition of her important campaign to win the right to vote. -
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is founded and the first issue published by Dewitt and Lila Wallace. -
Calvin Coolidge
President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska, and is succeeded by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge would oppose the League of Nations, but approved of the World Court. -
IBM Corporation
The IBM corporation is founded. -
Grand Ole Opry
The Grand Ole Opry transmits its first radio broadcast -
Media Expansion
The NBC Radio Network is formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opening with twenty-four stations. -
Pictures and JAZZ
The advent of talking pictures emerges. Al Jolson in the Jazz Singer debuts in New York City. -
Woman FLIES
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean. -
NEW PRESIDENT
Herbert Hoover wins election as President of the United States with an Electoral College victory, 444 to 87 over Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith, the Catholic governor of New York. -
St. Valentine's Masacre
In Chicago, Illinois, gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivals in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. -
Stock Market Crashes
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. (Photo below) On the New York City docks, out of work men during the Great Depression, an outcome of the Stock Market crash of 1929 after the prosperous decade of the 1920's. Photo: Federal Works Agency, circa 1934.