15 facts of the 1920s?

Question

15 facts of the 1920s?

Answer 1

flappers

prohibition

zoot suits

jazz

Answer 2

1920 was a leap year

1924 was a leap year  

1984 was a leap year

Americas Improvements in technology, fashion, manufacturing, and transportation

radio was made

television was made

rocket was made

1920 world war 1 stopped

1922 insulin treatment for diabetes

1927 first talking movie

iraq was founded by british 1920

American Indians were not made citizens of the U.S.

until congress acted in 1924

The Red Scare in the United States (1920-1921)

Women in the United States received the right to vote when the 19th amendment was passed..

The Dawes Plan, which lasted from 1924-1928

Answer 3

One good one: women's suffrage.

Answer 4

I NOW PRESENT 15 FACTS IN 1920 !!

Fact 1.

Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar.

Facts 2:

Events in January:

* January 1 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time.

* January 9-Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit

* January 16-Prohibition begins in the United States with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect.

o The World War I Allies demand that the Netherlands extradite the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has fled there.

o Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington D.C.

* January 19 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.

* January 22 - The Australian Country Party is officially formed.Matthew soares

* January 23 - The Netherlands refuses to extradite the German Kaiser.

Fact 3:

Events In February:

* February 1 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.

* February 2

o Estonian Freedom War: Tartu Peace Treaty is signed, ending the war and recognizing Estonian independence.

o France occupies Memel.

o Sayyid Muhammad, Khan of Khiva abdicates.

* February 7 - Admiral Kolchak and Viktor Pepelyayev are executed by firing squad near Irkutsk.

* February 9 - League of Nations gives Spitsbergen to Norway.

* February 10 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.

* February 22 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog racing track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.

* February 24 - Adolf Hitler presents his National Socialist program in Munich.

Fact 4:

eVENTS iN March

* March - World's first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government takes place in Sweden. Hjalmar Branting takes over when Nils Edén resigns.

* March 1

o Hungarian Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the Regent of Hungary

o The United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.

* March 26

o German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious Ruhr Red Army in the French-occupied area.

o The Black and Tans special constables arrive in Ireland.

* March 28 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 hits the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.

Fact 5:

Events in April

# April 2 - German army marches to Ruhr to fight Red Ruhr Army.

# April 4 - Jerusalem pogrom of April, 1920 . Violence between Arabic and Jewish resident in Jerusalem . governor declares the state of siege

# April 6 - The short-lived Far Eastern Republic declared in eastern Siberia

# April 24 - Polish-Soviet War: Polish and Anti-Soviet Ukrainian troops attack the Red Army in Soviet Ukraine.

# April 26 - the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic is officially created by Bolshevist Russia as the successor to the Khanate of Khiva

Fact 6:

Events in May

* May 2 - The first game of the ***** National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.

* May 7

o Polish-Soviet War: Polish troops occupy Kyiv. The government of Ukrainian People's Republic returns to the city.

o Venustiano Carranza leaves Mexico City in a large train.

o Treaty of Moscow (1920): Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.

* May 16 -

o Joan of Arc is canonised. Over 30,000 people attended the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. Pope Benedict XV presided over the rite, for which the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome was richly decorated.

o Referendum in Switzerland is favorable to joining League of Nations.

* May 24 - Venustiano Carranza is buried in Mexico City - all of his mourning allies are arrested. Adolfo de la Huerta is elected provisional president

Fact 7:

Events in Jun:

* June 4 - Treaty of Trianon, Treaty of Peace between The Allied and Hungary.

* June 12 - Polish-Soviet War: Red Army retakes Kyiv.

* June 13 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post

* June 15 - New border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.

* June 22 - Greece attacks Turkish troops.

Fact 8:

Events in July

* July 1 - Germany declares its neutrality in the war between Poland and Soviet Russia

* July 2 - Polish-Soviet War: Red Army continues offensive into Poland.

* July 20 – The United Kingdom cedes its brief control of the key Black Sea port of Batum to the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

* July 22 - Polish-Soviet War: Poland sues for peace with Bolshevist Russia.

* July 23 - The French defeat the Syrian army in the Battle of Maysalun.

* July 29 - The United States Bureau of Reclamation begins construction of the Link River Dam as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.

* July 31 - France prohibits the sale or prescription of contraceptives.

Fact 9:

Events iN August:

* August 2 - British parliament passes bill to restore order in Ireland, suspending jury trials.

* August 3 - Catholics riot in Belfast.

* August 10 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres.

* August 11 - Bolshevik Russia recognizes independent Estonia and Latvia.

* August 19-August 25 - Second Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans

* August 20 - The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.

* August 26 - 19th Amendment to US constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.

Facts 10:

Events in September

* September 4 - El Tercio de Extranjeros, the "Regiment of Foreigners" (modern-day Spanish Legion) inaugurated in Spain

* September 5 - Presidential elections begin in Mexico

* September 8 - Gabriele D'Annunzio proclaims the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume.

* September 29

o First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA – Westinghouse radio costs $10.

o Adolf Hitler makes first public political speech, in Austria.

Fact 11:

Events in October:

* October 9 - Polish troops take Vilnius

* October 10 - In the Carinthian Plebiscite a large part of Carinthia Province votes to become part of Austria rather than of the Yugoslavia.

* October 12 - Polish-Soviet War After Polish army captures Tarnopol, Dubno, Minsk, and Dryssa, the ceasefire is enforced.

* October 26 - Álvaro Obregón is announced elected president of Mexico

* October 27 - League of Nations moves its headquarters to Geneva, Switzerland

Fact 12

Events in November

* November 2

o Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox and Eugene V. Debs in the U.S. presidential election, the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.

o In the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (owned by Westinghouse) starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.

* November 17 - The council of the League of Nations accepts the constitution for the Free City of Danzig.

* November 21 - Bloody Sunday - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a football match in Dublin's Croke Park, killing 14 Irish civilians. This followed the assassinations of 12 British agents by the IRA in an earlier attack elsewhere.

* November 28 - The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under Tom Barry successfully ambush two lorries of British soldiers at Kilmichael, County Cork, in the Kilmichael Ambush

* Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's first concert in the world along with martha Washington.

Facts 13:

Events In December

# December 5 - Referendum in Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.

# December 11 - Martial law in Ireland.

# December 16

* Finland joins the League of Nations.

* 8.6 Richter scale Earthquake causes landslide in Gansu Province, China - 180.000 dead.

# December 22 - The 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR adopts GOELRO plan, the major plan of the economical development of the country.

Fact 14:

Person who got Nobel Prizes in 1920

* Physics - Charles Edouard Guillaume

* Chemistry - Walther Nernst

* Medicine - Schack August Steenberg Krogh

* Literature - Knut Hamsun

* Peace - Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois

Fact 15:

Ongoing in 1920:

* Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:

o Assyrian Genocide (1914–1922)

o Pontic Greek Genocide (1916–1923).

* Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)