Unit 12

  • 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.

  • Esch-Cummins Transportation Act. Merchant Marine Act

  • 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.