1917..1919
United States enters World War I. Alabama's
167th Regiment, a part of the 42nd "Rainbow Division," serves at the front
longer than any U.S. regiment.
1919
Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution bans manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
1920
Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution grants women the right to vote.
1926
University of Alabama football team,
the first southern team to be honored with an invitation to the Rose Bowl,
defeats the University of Washington (January 1).
1929 ..1940
Great Depression and New
Deal.
1933
Tennessee Valley Authority created
to develop resources of poor Appalachian South, including large parts of
north Alabama.
1934
Bankhead Cotton Control Act, sponsored
by Alabama Senator John Bankhead, Jr., passed to boost the price of cotton
by limiting the amount a farmer could market.
1937
Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenancy Act,
co-sponsored by Alabama Senator John Bankhead, Jr., passed to provide federal
loans to farm tenants to purchase land.
1941 .. 1945
United States in World War
II. Alabama has new or expanded military bases in Montgomery, Mobile, Selma,
and Anniston; munitions plants in Huntsville and Childersburg.
1950 .. 1953
Korean War.
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