The 1920s
	American History American Literature European History	1920s CE

1920 Warren G Harding 404-127EV James M. Cox  For a second time, the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the 1919 Treaty of Versailles with Germany.       Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for advocating the establishment of the League of Nations.       The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote, was ratified.	1921 Warren G Harding 1st Lady: Florence In May, Congress set up a national quota system for immigration.  In June, the Budget and Accounting Act was signed into law, creating the Bureau of the Budget.  On July 2, the president signed a joint congressional resolution of peace with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. The  treaties were signed in August.  On November 12, the International Conference on Limitation of Armaments opened in Washington. It lasted until  February 6, 1922. The major powers agreed to limit naval construction.  Harding ordered federal troops into West Virginia during the coal strike of 1921.
1922 Sweeping federal injunction issued against Railway Shopmen's Strike.  Fordney-McCumber Act, raising tariffs on manufactured goods to the highest level to date, signed into law.	1923 In June, the president set out on a transcontinental "Voyage of Understanding" to promote U.S. participation in the World       Court. He took ill on his return. For months, evidence of corruption in his administration had been coming to light. After his death, several high officials were linked to the Teapot Dome and other scandals.
1924 Calvin Coolidge pressed for investigations and prosecutions relating to scandals involving members of the Harding administration   Coolidge was elected president in his own right. 382-136-13EV John W. Davis Robert M. LaFollette  1st Lady: Grace	1925 U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua after the outbreak of civil war
1926 Vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm bill, which called for the dumping of agricultural surpluses. Vetoed the relief measure       again in 1928.	1927 The president sent Henry Stimson to work out a compromise in the Nicaraguan Civil War, but General Augusta César Sandino launched a guerrilla war that lasted until the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 1933.  Despite strong party support, announced on August 2: "I do not choose to run for president in 1928."
1928 Herbert Hoover 444-87EVAlfred E. Smith Kellogg-Briand Pact, an agreement "to renounce war as an instrument of national policy," was signed in Paris by 15 nations on August 24.	1929 Herbert Hoover1st Lady: Lou After taking the oath of office on March 4, the new president called Congress into special session in April. Two months later, the Agricultural Marketing Act, designed to assist farmers suffering from low incomes during an are of prosperity, was enacted.  The New York Stock Market crashed on October 29, beginning a severe economic depression that dominated the Hoover presidency.

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