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1903
Wright brothers first flight
1903
First story-sequence motion picture
1908
Henry Ford introduces Model T
1914
W.C Handy's "St.Louis Blues" debuts
1917
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
1919
Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition)
1919
Volstead Act
1919
Seattle General Strike
1919
Anderson publishes Wines-burg, Ohio
1919
American Legion founded
1919-1920
Red Scare
1920
Radio broadcasting begins
1920
Fitzgerald publishes "This side of paradise"
1920
Lewis publishes "Main Street"
1920
esch-cummins transportation act
1920
merchant marine act
1921
Veterans Bureau created
1921
Capper-Volstead Act
1921
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
1921
Emergency Quota Act
1921
Bureau of the Budget created
1922
Five-Power Naval Treaty signed
1922
Four-Power and Nine-Power Treaties on the Far East
1922
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
1922
Lewis publishes Babbitt
1922
Elliot publishes the wasteland
1923
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed
1923
Adkins v. Children's Hospital
1923
tea pot dome scandal
1923
Harding dies; Coolidge assumes presidency
1924
Immigration Act of 1924
1924
Adjusted Compensation Act for veterans
1924
Dawes Plan for international finance
1924
U.S. troops leave Dominican Republic
1925
Coolidge wins 3-way presidential election
1925
Scopes Trial
1925
Florida real estate boom
1925
Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
1925
Dreiser publishes An American Tragedy
1926
U.S. troops occupy Nicaragua
1926
Hughes publishes The Weary Blues
1926
Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises
1927
Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic
1927
First "talkie" The Jazz Singer
1927
Show Boat opens on Broadway
1927
Sacco and Vanzetti executed
1928
Kellogg-Briand Pact
1928
Hoover elected president (defeats Smith)
1928
Hoover makes goodwill tour of Latin America
1928
Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude debuts on Broadway
1929
Agricultural Marketing Act sets up Federal Farm Board
1929
stock market crash
1929
Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury
1929
hemingway publishes the Sound and the Fury
1929
Hemmingway publishes A Farewell to Arms
1930
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1932
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) established
1932
Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act
1932
Bonus Army dispersed from DC
1932
Al Capone imprisoned