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During this time the government grew intense with the persecution of radical politicians in response to the Postwar Red Scarce. This operation was coordinated by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer and they raided homes of suspected radicals.
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Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, is published. A week later, he and Zelda marry in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York
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This Side of Paradise is the first novel that F. Scott Fitzgerald completes.
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The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified and grants women the access and right to vote.
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The American Professional Football League is formed and Jim Thorpe was its president. There was eleven teams but the name later changed to National Football League in 1922.
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Fitzgerald publishes his first short story collection called Flappers and Philosophers
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The Fitzgerald family leave for their first trip to Europe. They spend three months in England, France and Italy before returning to the U.S.
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In Atlantic City, New Jersey the first Miss America pageant is held and won by Margaret Gorman for the title of the Golden Mermaid trophy, later called Miss America.
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The Fitzgeralds' only child is born, a daughter named Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald. The family moves to St. Paul within the next month and lives there until June
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's book "The Beautiful and The Damned" is produced into a movie.
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The Lincoln Memorial, moved to the opposite end of the National Mall from the Capitol building, is dedicated in Washington, D.C
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For the first time Time Magazine is published.
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The first sound on film motion picture Phonofilm is show in the Rivoli Theatre in New York City by Lee de Forest.
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After becoming ill following a trip to Alaska, President Warren G. Harding dies and Calvin Coolidge goes into office.
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Fitzgerald writes a political satire called " From President to Postman" and it fails. In order to get out of debt he wrote short stories.
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The French Alps in Chamonix, France with sixteen nations sending athletes to participate, including the United States, which won four medals, make up the first Winter Olympic Games.
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The Fitzgerald family spends seven years in Europe but most of the time was spent in Paris.
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The first woman governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross, of the United States in Wyoming was inaugurated.
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The Great Gatsby is published and the story happens during the 1922 time period
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Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA forms the NBC Radio Network with twenty-four stations.
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American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth was the inventor of the first success in the invention of television. The complete electronic television system was be patented three years later on August 26, 1930.
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The first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on film occurs with the release of the animated short film, Plane Crazy.
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Martin Luther King is born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia.
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JC Penney opens its Store #1252 in Delaware only two weeks before the stock market crash.
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The decreasing stock prices led to many losses between 1929 and 1931 of and estimated $50 billion along with starting the worst American depression in the nation's history.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife suffers her first nervous breakdown which results in her spending a year being hospitalized in various clinics. Later in this year, F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes his short story "One Trip Aboard".
