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February 3, 1920 - The first performance of the play, Beyond the Horizon, is held. The play by Eugene O'Neill would win the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes. August 18, 1920 - Women are given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States constitution grants universal women's suffrage.
February. February 14 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago. March. March 1 – The United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies. March 10 – The Baylor Business Men's Club changes its name to the Baylor University Chamber of Commerce.
February 24, 1920: German Workers' Party Deputy Chairman Hitler unveils platform of new Nazi Party February 10, 1920: Poland regains a seaport February 13, 1920: U.S. Secretary of State Lansing fired by President Wilson February 2, 1920: Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence with treaty in Tartu
- 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.
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- The 'New Woman' The most familiar symbol of the “Roaring Twenties” is probably the flapper: a young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said what might be termed “unladylike” things, in addition to being more sexually “free” than previous generations.
- Mass Communication and Consumerism. During the 1920s, many Americans had extra money to spend, and they spent it on consumer goods such as ready-to-wear clothes and home appliances like electric refrigerators.
- The Jazz Age. Cars also gave young people the freedom to go where they pleased and do what they wanted. (Some pundits called them “bedrooms on wheels.”) What many young people wanted to do was dance: the Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom, the flea hop.
- Prohibition. During the 1920s, some freedoms were expanded while others were curtailed. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1919, had banned the manufacture and sale of “intoxicating liquors,” and at 12 A.M.
Jun 17, 1928. Amelia Earhart is the First Woman to Fly over Atlantic. . Oct 29, 1929. Stock Market Crash. . Jan 22, 1930. Empire State Building Construction Begins. . Feb 18, 1930. Pluto is Discovered. .
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