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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. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...
September 22 – William H. Riker, political scientist (died 1993) September 23 – Mickey Rooney, film actor (died 2014) September 24 Richard Bong, fighter ace (killed in aviation accident 1945) Harber H. Hall, politician (died 2020) September 27 – William Conrad, actor (died 1994) September 30 – Milton P. Rice, politician (died 2018)
1917–1920 – First Red Scare, marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism; 1918 – President Wilson's Fourteen Points, which assures citizens that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and postwar peace in Europe; 1918 – Republicans win back Congress in the Midterm elections. 1918 – Armistice agreement ends World ...
Around 1880-1920 wide-ranging non-academic historians such as George Bancroft and James Ford Rhodes focused on durable institutions, especially the presidency, Congress, and the two main political parties. Traditional political history focused on major leaders and long played a dominant role beyond academic historians in the United States.
1920s political conferences (20 P) 1920s coups d'état and coup attempts (3 C, 27 P) E. 1920s elections (18 C, 1 P) Pages in category "1920s political events"
The number increased to 620 in 1910, and the population reached 2,650 in 1920. One of the communities benefiting from this growth was Mason City, where the total population nearly doubled from ...
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. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...
"The economic, political, and cultural 'wars' that split the U.S. in [the '20s] are eerily similar to the conflicts of today," Rhodes says. "Arguably, through the intervening decades, we made ...