1920 – 1929 World History Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) National Archives and Records Admin. Bessie Smith (1894–1937) The Library of Congress Picture Collection William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Archive Photos Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) U.S. Army Photos Dorothea Lange's photo “Migrant Mother” (1936) documented the Great Depression (1929–1940) The Library of Congress Picture Collection 1920 League of Nationsholds first meeting at Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. Dept. of Justice “red hunt” nets thousands of radicals; aliens deported. Women's suffrage(19th) amendment ratified. Treaty of Sèvres dissolves Ottoman Empire. First Agatha Christiemystery. Sinclair Lewis'sMain Street. 1921 Reparations Commission fixes German liability at 132 billion gold marks. German inflation begins. Major treaties signed at Washington Disarmament Conference limit naval tonnage and pledge to respect territorial integrity of China. In U.S., Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-born anarchists, convicted of armed robbery murder; case stirs worldwide protests; they are executed in1927. 1922 Mussolinimarches on Rome; forms Fascistgovernment. Irish Free State, a self-governing dominion of British Empire, officially proclaimed. Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey, overthrows last sultan. James Joyce'sUlysses. 1923 Adolf Hitler's “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich fails; in 1924he is sentenced to five years in prison where he writesMein Kampf;released after eight months. Occupation of Ruhr by French and Belgian troops to enforce reparations payments. Widespread Ku Klux Klanviolence in U.S. Earthquake destroys third of Tokyo. George Gershwin'sRhapsody in Blue. Bessie Smith, known as “the Empress of the Blues,” makes her first record. Irish poet William Butler Yeatswins Nobel Prize in Literature. 1924 Death of Lenin; Stalinwins power struggle, rules as Soviet dictator until death in1953.Italian Fascists murder Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall and oilmen Harry Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny are charged with conspiracy and bribery in the Teapot Domescandal, involving fraudulent leases of naval oil reserves. In1931,Fall is sentenced to year in prison; Doheny and Sinclair acquitted of bribery. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb convicted in “thrill killing” of Bobby Franks in Chicago; defended by Clarence Darrow; sentenced to life imprisonment. (Loeb killed by fellow convict in1936;Leopold paroled in1958,dies in1971.) Robert Frostwins first of four Pulitzers. 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected governor of Wyoming; first woman governor elected in U.S. Locarno conferencesseek to secure European peace by mutual guarantees. John T. Scopesconvicted and fined for teaching evolution in a public school in Tennessee “Monkey Trial”; sentence set aside. John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor, transmits human features by television. Hitlerpublishes Volume I ofMein Kampf. 1926 General strike in Britain brings nation's activities to standstill. U.S. marines dispatched to Nicaragua during revolt; they remain until1933. Gertrude Ederleof U.S. is first woman to swim English Channel. Ernest Hemingway'sThe Sun Also Rises. 1927 German economy collapses. Socialists riot in Vienna; general strike follows acquittal of Nazisfor political murder. Trotsky expelled from Russian Communist Party. Charles A. Lindberghflies first successful solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris. Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray convicted of murder of Albert Snyder; they are executed at Sing Sing prison in1928.Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrates working television model. Georges Lemaître proposes Big Bang Theory. Babe Ruthhits 60 home runs in the season; record stands for next 34 years.The Jazz Singer,with Al Jolson, first part-talking motion picture. 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed in Paris by 65 nations. Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. Richard E. Byrdstarts expedition to Antarctic; returns in1930.Anthropologist Margaret MeadpublishesComing of Age in Samoa.Final volume ofOxford English Dictionarypublished after 44 years of research. 1929 Trotskyexpelled from USSR Lateran Treatyestablishes independent VaticanCity. In U.S., stock market prices collapse, with U.S. securities losing $26 billion—first phase of Depressionand world economic crisis. St. Valentine's Day gangland massacre in Chicago. Edwin Powell Hubble proposes theory of expanding universe. Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 1910 – 1919 World History 1900–1999 (A.D.) World History 1930 – 1939 World History More on1920 8211 1929 World Historyfrom Infoplease: Hitler: meaning and definitions- Hitler: Definition and Pronunciation woman suffrage: meaning and definitions- woman suffrage: Definition and Pronunciation Adolf Hitler- Hitler, Adolf Hitler, Adolf , 1889–1945, founder and leader of National Socialism (Nazism), ... Hitlerism: meaning and definitions- Hitlerism: Definition and Pronunciation