1911 – Chinese Revolution
1912 – Titanic
1914 – Marcus Garvey (Universal Negro Improvement Association)
Panama Canal completed
1915 – Armenian Genocide
Birth of a Nation
1916 – Easter Uprising – Ireland
1918 – Spanish Flu
Russian Royalty murdered
1920 – Right to Vote for all women
Prohibition begins
1921 – Irish Free State
1921 – Immigration Act (Emergency Quota Act)
1924 – Updated Immigration Act
The 1921 Act limited immigration to 3% of immigrants that currently lived in the U.S., but
according to the 1890 Census. Severely slowed all immigration, but specifically targeted Arabs,
Indians, and most Asians. Also targeted Jews via the slowing of numbers from Eastern and
Southern Europe (75% of all Jews in America came from Russia)
Powered by Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race (1916)
Ended with the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which pretended to balance overall racial
immigration numbers.
1932 – Lindbergh baby kidnapped
1933 – German Concentration Camps started – German dissidents, then Russians, then Jews
1934 – Stalin’s Great Purge starts
1935 – Official AntiSemitic Nuremburg Laws established
1936 – Spanish Civil War
1936 – Marcus Garvey Back to Africa plan fails
1939 – World War II begins
1890 Census looks like 80% North and West Europe.
The “threat” started in 1891, and quickly “worsened” through 1910, before slight
improving from 1911-1921. Then the emergency act skewed the numbers back quickly and
quite effectively.