American society and culture in the interwar years
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Обновлено: 29 мая 2018
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US Census chowed more than
half the population living in urban areasStart of the implementation of prohibitionUniversal women's suffrage confirmed
by 19th AmendmentEmergency Quota Act passed to
limit immigration into USAmerican Birth Control League
founded by Margaret SangerAnti-Lynching bill passed by the
House but blocked by the SenateFirst issue of Time
magazine publishedDeclaration by Congress
that all Native Americans are citizensNellie Tayloe Ross sworn in as
Governor of WyomingStart of the Scopes Trial
in TennesseeMarch on Washington
by 40,000 KlansmenFormation of NBC
Radio Network27,000 square miles inundated
by the Great Mississippi FloodParade in NY city celebrating Lindbergh's
solo flight across the atlanticExecution of Sacco and VanzettiThe birth of talking pictures,
The Jazz Singer shown in NY cinemasMerger of CBS radio network
and Columbia recordsRelease of Steamboat Willie,
the first Mickey Mouse cartoonValentines Day Massacre
in ChicagoMotion Pictures Production Code
introduced police morality into moviesGambling legalised in NevadaOpening of Empire State BuildingAl Capone sentenced to 11 years
imprisonment for tax evasionJane Addams awarded
Nobel Peace PrizeClashes between
police and 'bonus army'
in Washington DCFirst woman elected to the Senate:
Hattie Caraway of ArkansasJoe Zangara's attempt to
assasinate FDR in MiamiFrances Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor;
first female cabinet ministerProhibition ended by
21st AmendmentLaunch of Huey Long's
Share Our Wealth SocietyIndian New Deal
passed by CongressFormation of FBI, with
J. Edgar Hoover as Director'Black Sunday', the worst storms
of the Dust BowlWhite House garden party
hosted By Eleanor Roosevelt
for poor black girlsFormation of White House Committee
on Un-American ActivitiesCinema release of The Wizard of OzAmerica First Committee mass
rally in NY, with Charles Lindbergh as star speakerMarch on Washington called off; Executive Order 8802 issuedCompletion of presidential monuments on
Mount Rushmore
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