Conference.”

November 21, 1918: “President Wilson signs the Wartime Prohibition Act, banning the manufacture of alcohol for domestic sale effective from June 30, 1919, until demobilization.”

January 1919: Theodore Roosevelt dies; some Republicans hoped to nominate for the former President for a third term in 1920.

January 18, 1919: “The Paris Peace Conference opens, two weeks after President Wilson receives glowing welcomes in Rome and Paris.”

January 29, 1919: “The State Department announces the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution as of January 16, 1919, when Nebraska’s approval achieved the amendment’s required three-fourths majority. A nation-wide ban on the sale, distribution, or production of alcoholic beverages will go into effect on January 16, 1920.”

February 14, 1919: President Wilson presents his draft for the League of Nations covenant to the ParisPeace Conference.

May 19, 1919: “Congress adopts the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the franchise. The joint resolution reads: “The right of citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.””

July 10, 1919: “After failing to secure a peace without rancorous provisions from his fellow Allied leaders, President Wilson submits the Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations to the Senate for ratification. Senatorial deliberation on the treaty will last longer than the Paris Conference itself.”

August 31, 1919: “The Communist Labor Party of America is founded in Chicago and adopts the platform of the Third International as its own.”

September 4, 1919: President Wilson embarks on a country-wide speaking tour to gain