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League of nations 1st meeting - 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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Alcohol Prohibition
Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, is the legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages. The term can also apply to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the prohibition of alcohol was enforced -
Women given right to 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. -
Emergency Act Quota - Legal Immigration
A national quota system on the amount of incoming immigrants was established by the United States Congress in the Emergency Quota Act, curbing legal immigration. -
1st Miss America pageant
The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It is won by Margaret Gorman for the title of the Golden Mermaid trophy, later dubbed Miss America. -
Armaments Congress Ends
The Armaments Congress ends. It would lead to an agreement, the Five Power Disarmament Treaty, between the major world powers of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States, to limit naval construction, outlaw poison gas, restrict submarine attacks on merchant fleets and respect China's sovereignty. -
Time Magazine
Time Magazine is published for the first time. -
President Warren G, Dies
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 Founded
The IBM corporation is founded. -
Calvin Coolridge wins 1924 election
Calvin Coolidge wins his first election as President, retaining the White House for the Republican Party over his Democratic foe, John W. Davis, and Progressive Party candidate Robert M. LaFollette. The Electoral margin was 382 to 136 (Davis) to 13 (LaFollette). -
First Woman Governor of USA
Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming. Miriam Ferguson was installed fifteen days later as the second during a ceremony in Texas. -
NBC Radio Network is formed.
The NBC Radio Network is formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opening with twenty-four stations. -
China Civil War
The civil war in China prompts one thousand United States marines to land in order to protect property of United States interests. -
First woman to fly over Atlantic Ocean
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean. -
Herbert Hoover wins 1928 election
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. -
Boulder Dam approved
The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder, later named Hoover Dam. -
Martin Luther king is born.
Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia. -
JC Penney
JC Penney opens its Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, the last state in the Union to have one of their stores. The growth of the nationwide chain indicated the prosperity of the decade only two weeks before the stock market crash of 1929 would ensue. -
Stock Market Crash
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. 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.
