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1919
 
   
President Woodrow Wilson suffers a severe stroke that renders him largely incapable during the final seventeen months of his presidency      
1919
 
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To President Wilson's profound disappointment the US Congress, by failing to ratify the treaty of Versailles, opts out of the League of Nations        
1920
 
    
Prohibition comes into effect in the USA, three months after the Volstead Act has provided guidelines for enforcement       
1920
 
    
The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees women the right to vote       
1920
 
   
Warren Harding wins the US presidential election for the Republicans      
1921
 
   
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is paralyzed from the waist down by polio      
1922
 
    
The Teapot Dome scandal reveals corruption in the administration of US president Warren Harding       
1923
 
   
Warren Harding dies little more than half way through his term of office as US president      
1923
 
    
Warren Harding is succeeded as US president by his vice-president, Calvin Coolidge       
1924
 
    
Calvin Coolidge is elected US president in his own right, winning by a wide margin over Democrat John W. Davis