1919

1919 was a big year for America. It was the year we ratified Prohibition because, it rode the Progressive Movement. Most Americans thought the alcohol was behind America's most serious problems, such as corruption, child abuse, crime, unemployment, and worker safety. But, their was a very serious problem with Prohibition. No one liked it, including enforecement and even the government. "The very men who made the Prohibition law are violating it. How can you send a man to jail for selling alcohol…

Jackie Robinson was a baseball player that lived from 1919 to 1972. People know him for destroying the color barrier and making history when he became the first black athlete to play Major League Baseball in the 20th Century. Jack “Jackie” Robinson would soon come to be one of the world’s most valued players in the world of Major League Baseball. This would be the beginning of a legend in the making. Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cario, Georgia. Jackie was raised by a single…

Clyde Staples Lewis, author of the well-loved Chronicles of Narnia series, was born to Albert James Lewis and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis in 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Lewis was the younger of two sons; he had a brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis, who had been born in 1895. Lewis went by the nickname of “Jack”, a name which he apparently gave himself and which stuck (Biography.com). When he was 10, his mother died of cancer, and he and Warren were sent to Wynyard School in England. After…

The definition of honor is high respect or esteem, my definition of honor is a person that is highly respected for doing something to contribute to the community. Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 to April 18, 1955) did many things during his lifetime he had many accomplishments and awards. Albert Einstein is highly respected by many people. Albert Einstein was physicist and mathematician who developed the theory of relativity. In 1921 Einstein won a Nobel Prize for physics and the photoelectric…

Evita Perón: La Primera Dama The year is 1919. The world has just welcomed an illegitimate baby girl who will go on to achieve greatness as the first lady of Argentina. Her name, María Eva Duarte. Even though she had a tough childhood, grew up poor, and dropped out of high school, she lived to overcome many odds.Through her humanitarian efforts and her time served as the first lady of Argentina, Eva Peron is considered one of the most influential people in Argentine history. Eva had a tough…

To Win I Peg We Strike Back In May 1919- June 26, 1919, Canadian protesters lined up in the streets of Winnipeg and began to fight for their justice. Over thirty thousand people fought in one of Canada’s largest strikes. Many were returning veterans from the war who realized that after they returned, they didn’t have a job. These men and women were underpaid, over worked and the condition of their workplaces were inhabitable. The unemployment rate soared as many factories shut down as after…

From 1919 to 1922, British government applied some brutal laws for the people of British India like Rowlett act and incident of Jallianwala Bagh had leaved so many pains. Therefore these incidents lead to the protest of two separate issues…

their identity and their great pillar doctrines of the Second Advent, the Sabbath, the heavenly sanctuary, and the state of the dead. But from 1886-1919 they started to face issues when they forgot the Christian aspects of their theology. By the end of 1919, the Seventh-day Adventist Church had already gone through two identity crises. Then, from 1919-1950, the issues and debates between liberalism and fundamentalism arose. Seventh-day Adventists were more on the fundamentalist side, since it…

crisis in 1929-1933 significantly impacted on its downfall. Along with the initial establishment of the republic in 1919 and its weaknesses, there were political and economic challenges faced in the early 20’s, and the onslaught of the Great Depression and the rising force of the Nazi’s just increased its chances at failure. The Weimar Republic was forcefully established in 1919 by the Allies after Germany’s defeat…

The Spartacist Revolution in January 1919 was a factor that undermined Germany or the ‘Weimar Government’. The extreme left-wing parties had disagreed with having any form of democratic parliament, which sparked a revolution. Led by extremists and revolutionists, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht…