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May 24, 2019 · 1920. Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images. Women won the right to vote in 1920 with the adoption of the 19th Amendment, the first commercial radio broadcast aired, the League of Nations was established, and the Harlem Renaissance began. There was a bubonic plague in India, and Pancho Villa retired. Prohibition began in the United States, and ...
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- The League of Nations Was Established in 1920.
- America Had A De-Facto Female President in 1920.
- The U.S. Sustained What Was Then Its Worst Terrorist Attack in 1920.
- J. Edgar Hoover Began His Ascent in 1920.
- Women Gained The Right to Vote in 1920.
- The Constitution Was Amended Twice in 1920.
- The “Lost Generation” Began Its Transformation of American Literature in 1920.
- The KKK Terrorized The U.S. in 1920.
- A Guy Named Charles Ponzi Came Up with A Sales Scheme in 1920.
- The Mass Media Was Born in 1920.
In an address to Congress in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson presented what he called the “Fourteen Points” (derided by others as his Ten Commandments because of Wilson’s insufferable self-righteousness), a plan to end war forever. The following year, he traveled to Paris to help negotiate the Treaty of Versailles. Upon his arrival, as Burns relates...
While on the campaign trail pushing for the U.S. to accept the League of Nations, President Wilson suffered a stroke that caused paralysis, partial blindness, and brain damage. For the remainder of his term—another year and a half—he was, as Burns describes, “an invalid at best, little more than a rumor at worst,” totally incapable of meeting with ...
On September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn cart carrying a massive, improvised explosive was detonated on the busiest corner of Wall Street. One eyewitness described “two sheets of flame that seemed to envelop the whole width of Wall Street and as high as the 10th story of the tall buildings.” Thirty-eight people were killed in the Wall Street bombing, a...
As a result of a series of bombings in 1919, the attorney general of the United States, Mitchell Palmer, mounted a campaign to capture and deport foreign radicals. The next year marked the “most spectacular” of the Palmer raids, in which thousands of accused communists and anarchists across the country were arrested in a single swoop. The raid’s or...
The women’s suffrage movement reached as far back as 1638, when Margaret Brent, a successful businesswoman in Virginia, demanded the right to vote in the state’s House of Burgesses. By 1920, every state west of the Mississippi River allowed women to vote. Burns notes that “a mere nine states denied women the vote in all instances, and seven of thos...
1920 was the only year since the passage of the Bill of Rights that the Constitution was twice amended. The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited alcohol in the United States. It was, writes Burns, “the most openly ignored regulation in American history ... Not only did the Amendment fail to be heeded; it often failed to be acknowledged with a straight f...
In 1920, the “Lost Generation”—expatriate writers who lived in Europe following World War I—became a force in American literature. Among books published in 1920 were Main Street, a skewering of small-town America by Sinclair Lewis; This Side of Paradise, the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald; and Flappers and Philosophers, Fitzgerald’s first colle...
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. The Klan’s activities, Burns describes, were “reigns of terror, spaced widely in time and place,” that could be “loosely compared to latter-day outbreaks of the In...
In the early 1900s, representatives from countries around the world worked out a way to make it easier for people to send mail across national borders. They created an “international reply coupon,” which could be bought in one country and traded for postage stamps in another. Charles Ponzi, an Italian immigrant to the United States, discovered a lo...
In November 1920, the first commercially licensed radio station began broadcasting live results of the presidential election. The transmission of breaking news was new and unprecedented, and as word spread of this new medium, the “talking box” exploded in popularity. Two years later, Americans bought 100,000 radios. In 1923, they bought 500,000. By...
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. In America, it is frequently referred to as the " Roaring Twenties " or the " Jazz Age ", while in Europe the period is sometimes referred to as the " Golden Twenties " [1 ...
- 1922. What Happened in 1922 History. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is created in 1922. Egypt declares its independence. The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is formed and financed by a Post Office license fee of 10 shillings, payable by anyone owning a radio receiver.
- 1923. What Happened in 1923 History. King Tutankhamun's Tomb is opened by Howard Carter. Insulin is mass-produced for the treatment of diabetes. The Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama in 1923 leaving over 100,000 fatalities.
- 1924. What Happened in 1924 History. The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held on November 27th, 1924. Ellis Island closes as an immigration entry point to the US.
- 1925. What Happened in 1925 History. The Butler Act which prohibits evolution from being taught in public schools is passed in Tennessee in 1925 it is not repealed until 1967.
- 1920. January 16, 1920: The 18th Amendment had been long debated and was finally put in place on January 16. It was spearheaded by the Women's Temperance movement that began shortly after the Civil War and gained popularity during the rest of the 19th century.
- 1921. March 4, 1921: Warren G. Harding was sworn in as the 29th President of the United States. July 1921: Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany.
- 1922. October 30, 1922: Benito Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy.
- 1923. August 2, 1923: After many scandals and failures, Warren G. Harding's presidency ends when he died in office. Calvin Coolidge takes over as President.
Apr 14, 2010 · The Roaring Twenties was a period in American history of dramatic social, economic and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation’s total ...
Timeline. 1920. January 1, 1920 - For the first time, the 1920 census indicates apopulation in the United States over 100 million people. The 15% increase since the last census now showed a count of 106,021,537. The geographic center of the United States population still remained in Indiana, eight miles south-southeast of Spencer, in Owen County.
