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1920
 
    
Prohibition comes into effect in the USA, three months after the Volstead Act has provided guidelines for enforcement       
1920
 
  
The US steel strike collapses after four months, with nothing achieved     
1920
 
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A right-wing military putsch seizes power for a few days in Berlin     
1920
 
    
Ezra Pound publishes Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, a poem that reflects on the practice of poetry itself       
1920
 
    
After several less successful novels, the French writer Colette makes her reputation with Chéri       
1920
 
    
Marie Rambert, a Polish dancer with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London       
1920
 
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A plebiscite in Schleswig establishes the border between Denmark and Germany     
1920
 
    
Edith Wharton publishes her best-known novel, The Age of Innocence       
1920
 
     
Vladimir Tatlin's model for a gigantic Monument to the Third International becomes one of the most significant examples of Constructivism        
1920
 
   
A national congress in Damascus proclaims Faisal king of an independent Syria