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KKK comes back.
The Ku Klux Klan, a genocidal domestic terrorist organization founded during Reconstruction, was revitalized in 1920, the result in part of new Klan leadership with an eye for publicity. They hate not only catholics, but also Jews, Asians, and African Americans plus europeans who don't come from Nordic countries. -
The 18th Amendment- Prohibition
The 18th Amendment ( Volstead Act / National Prohibition Act ) goes into force at the beginning of the decade which in turn leads to increased black market alcohol that is sold in speakeasies and run by mobsters who pay off local politicians -
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Women get the right to vote
By 1920, every state west of the Mississippi River allowed women to vote. Only nine states denied women the vote in all instances, and seven of those were among the original thirteen colonies. The last “yes” vote needed for ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which provided for women’s suffrage, was Tennessee. On August 18, 1920, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted in favor of the amendment by a vote of 50-49. -
First issue from Time Magazine
The very first issue of Time Magazine was published during March. The magazine was developed by journalists Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and was the first news magazine published every week in the United States. The first issue featured former US Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon on the cover and contained a variety of short articles related to different topics. -
US attends the first Winter Olympics
The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France with sixteen nations sending athletes to participate, including the United States, which won four medals. Norway, with four gold and eighteen medals total had the most in both categories. The Winter Olympic Games have been held since this year, except during World War II. -
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
The tradition of this parade started on this day. The three-hour parade is held in Manhattan from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952 -
"The Great Gatsby" is published.
The classic novel "The Great Gatsby" is published by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It becomes one of FItzgerald's books but only after he died. -
Beginnings of Mount Rushmore
Work begins on Mount Rushmore in the late 1920's carving the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. It takes nearly 15 years to comple -
Mickey Mouse debut
Walt Disney's famous Mickey Mouse cartoon character appears for the first time in "Steamboat Willie."
Created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey first appeared in the short Plane Crazy, debuting publicly in the short film Steamboat Willie (1928), one of the first sound cartoons. -
Start of the Great Depression
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 started the period of The Great Depression in the United States. The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939