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U.S. enters World War I
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Period: to
First Red Scare
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Espionage and Sedition Acts
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Lansing-Ishii Agreement
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U.S. Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark
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President Wilson's Fourteen Points
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Treaty of Versailles ends World War I
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United States Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
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18th Amendment, establishing Prohibition
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Black Sox Scandal during the that year's World Series
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Esch-Cummins Act
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19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote
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Sacco and Vanzetti arrested
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Volstead Act
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Warren G. Harding becomes President
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Emergency Quota Act
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Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Herbert Hoover becomes President
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Fordney-McCumber tariff
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President Warren G. Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge succeeds him
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Immigration Act Basic Law
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J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation
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WSM broadcasts the Grand Ole Opry for the first time.
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NBC founded as the U.S.'s first major broadcast network
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Sacco and Vanzetti executed
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Charles Lindbergh makes first trans-Atlantic flight
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Columbia Broadcasting System becomes second national radio network in the U.S.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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American Samoa officially becomes a U.S. territory
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission established
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Johnson Act
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National Labor Relations Act
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Franklin Roosevelt is sworn in as President for a 2nd term.
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Neutrality Acts
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Attack on Pearl Harbor; U.S. enters World War II by declaring war on Japan