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1920s political conferences (20 P) 1920s coups d'état and coup attempts (3 C, 27 P) E. 1920s elections (18 C, 1 P) ... Statistics; Cookie statement; Mobile view ...
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 ...
The Progressive Era in the United States was a period of social activism and political reform that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. The politics of the 1920s was unfriendly toward the labor unions and liberal crusaders against business and so many, if not all, historians who emphasize those themes write off the decade.
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 ...
Gilmore, Glenda E. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the politics of white supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (UNC Press Books, 2019). Heard, Alexander, and Donald S. Strong. Southern Primary and General Election Data, 1920-1949 (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1984) compendium of county-level votes. Janick, Herbert.
February 2 – Field Eugene Kindley, World War I aviator (born 1896) February 3 – Frank Brown, 42nd Governor of Maryland from 1892 to 1896 (born 1846) February 15 – Joseph Burton Sumner, founder of Sumner, Mississippi (born 1837) February 20 Joseph J. Fern, Mayor of Honolulu from 1909 to 1915 and from 1917 to 1920 (born 1872)
1920s: Alcohol Prohibition & Organized Crime. America's Temperance Movement achieved its primary goal Jan. 16, 1920, when the 18th Amendment's ban on making and selling intoxicating liquors took ...
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 ...