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Roarin' 20's

By cgeever
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    The Roarin' Twenties

  • League of Nations is formed

  • Prohibition is put into effect

    Prohibition is put into effect

    result of 18th amendment

  • Women are given the right to vote in the U.S.

    Result of 19th amendment
  • Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as President.

    Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as President.

  • Tulsa Race Riots start in Oklahoma.

    Atleast 39 dead

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Nazi Party in Germany

  • Insulin is discovered

    By Frederick Banting

  • Mussolini takes over Rome and brings National Fascist Party to power in Italy.

  • Tomb of King Tut is found

    Tomb of King Tut is found

  • First issue of Time magazine

  • Vladimir Lenin steps down as Chairman of USSR for health reasons

  • Warner Bros. Company is founded

  • First WInter Olympics open in France

    First WInter Olympics open in France

  • Calvin Coolidge becomes first president to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House

  • J. Edgar Hoover becomes director of FBI

  • Scopes Trial begins in Tennesee

  • Hitler publishes autobiography "Mein Kampf"

    Hitler publishes autobiography "Mein Kampf"

  • 40,000 KKK members march down Pennsylvania Ave.

    40,000 KKK members march down Pennsylvania Ave.

    Membership is estimated at 5 million

  • Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fuel rocket

  • U.S. Route 66 is established

  • Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan

    Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan

  • Great Mississippi Flood begins

    hits 700,000 people. Worst natural disaster of the decade.
  • Charles Lindbergh flies alone across the Atlantic.

    Charles Lindbergh flies alone across the Atlantic.

  • FIrst talking movie is released in America

    Titled "The Jazz SInger"

  • Pre-sliced bread is on shelves for the first time

  • Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin

    Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin

  • Congress approves the building of the Hoover Dam

    It was originally named Boulder Dam

  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, connected to Al Capone

  • Geneva Convention is held, discussing treatment of POWs

  • Stock Market crashes, Great Depression begins

    Stock Market crashes, Great Depression begins

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