Wright brothers fly fisrt airplane. First story-sequence motion pictures.
Henry Ford introduce Model T
W.C. Handy's "st.Louis Blues" debuts
Council of National Defence established
Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare. Zimmermann note. Railroads placed under federal control. United states enters WWI. Espionage Act of 1917. Wilson calls for "peace without victory". Bolshevik revolution.
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
Wilson proposes Fourteen Points. Sedition Act of 1918. Battle of Chateau-Thierry. Second Battle of the Marne. Meuse-Argonne offensive.
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Armistice ends WWI. Worldwide influenza pandemic
Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles. Wilson's pro-League tour and collapse. Eighteen Amendemnet(prohibition of alcohol) passed. First Senate defeat of Versailles Treaty.
Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition). Volstead Act. Seattle general strike. Anderson publishes Winesburg, Ohio.
American Legion founded. Chicago race riot.
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RED SCARE
Final Senate defeat of Versailles Treaty after reconsideration. Nineteenth Amendment (women suffrage) passed. Harding defeats Cosx for presidency.
Radio broadcasting begins. Fitzgerald publishes THIS SIDE OF PARADISE. Lewis publishes MAIN STREET.
SACCo-Vanzetti trial. Emergency Quota Act. Bureau of the Budget created.
Veterans Bureau created. Capper-Volstead Act
Five-Power Naval Treaty signed. Four-Power and Nine-Power Treaties on the Far East. Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law
Lewis publishes BABBITT. Eliot publishes The Wstes land
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed.
Adkin v. Children's Hospital. Teapot Dome scandal. Harding dies; Coolidge assumes presidency.
Immigration Act of 1924
Adjusted Compensation Act for veterans. Dawes Plan for international finance. U.S. troops leave Dominican Republic. Coolidge wins three-way presidential election.
Scopes trial. Florida real estate boom. Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. Breiser publishes An American Tragedy.
Hughes publishes The Waery Blues. Hemingway publishes The sun aslo rises
U.S. troops occupy Nicaragua
Lindbergh flies solo across Atlantic. First talking motion pictures, The Jazz Singer. Show Boat opens on Broadway. Sacco and Vanzetti excuted
Eugene O'Neill's Strange Onterlude debuts on Broadway.
Kellogg-Briand Pact. Hoover defeats Smith for presidency. Hoover makes goodwill tour of Latin America.
Faulkner publishes The sound and the Fury. Heminway publishes A Farewell to Arms.
Agricultural Marketing Act sets up Federal Farm Board. Stock-market crash.
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Japanese invade Manchuria
AL Capone imprisoned
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) established. Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act. Bonus Army dispersed from Washington, D.C.