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1920
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In reaction to Russian Revolution, Palmer
Raids arrest or deport thousands of U.S. residents on suspicion
of Communist affiliations
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First commercial radio
broadcast airs
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Warren G. Harding elected 29th president,
promising “return to normalcy”
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19th Amendment grants women’s
suffrage
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1921
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Congress sets quotas on immigration
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Federal Highway Act allots aid for
construction and maintenance of state roads
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1922
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union or
USSR) established with Vladimir I.
Lenin as leader
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1923
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Harding dies; Vice President Calvin
Coolidge becomes 30th president
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1924
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Lenin dies; Joseph Stalin becomes leader of
USSR
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Teapot Dome scandal exposes massive
corruption in Harding administration
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Dawes Plan eases war reparations against
Germany
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National Origins Act limits immigrants from
Asia, Eastern and Southern Europe
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Coolidge elected president
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1925
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Scopes Monkey Trial popularizes debate over
teaching evolution in schools
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes novel The Great
Gatsby
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1926
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More than 60 nations sign Kellogg-Briand
Pact condemning war in any form
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Ernest Hemingway publishes novel The Sun Also
Rises
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1927
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Charles Lindbergh completes world’s first
solo flight across Atlantic
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Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti executed for
murder; controversial verdict leads to charges that executions were
politically motivated and unjustified
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Film The Jazz Singer popularizes “talkies” and
signals end of silent era
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Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs for New York
Yankees
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1928
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Herbert Hoover elected 31st
president
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1929
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Young Plan further reduces Germany’s war
reparations
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William Faulkner publishes novel The Sound
and the Fury
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Stock market crash (“Black Thursday” on
October 24, “Black Tuesday” on October 29) launches Great
Depression
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