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This treaty signing leads to the start of world war 1.
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Women are given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States constitution grants universal women's suffrage.
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A Congressional resolution by both houses is signed by President Warren G. Harding, declaring peace in World War I hostilities with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. The treaties would be executed one month later.
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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
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The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France.
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The Grand Ole Opry transmits its first radio broadcast.
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The advent of talking pictures emerges.
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The NBC Radio Network is formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opening with twenty-four stations.
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the civil war in China prompts one thousand United States marines to land in order to protect property of United States interests.
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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.
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The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder, later named Hoover Dam.
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The stock market crash triggered the great Depression of the 1930s.
