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Presbyterians in Twentieth-Century American History 1912 Presbyterian Woodrow Wilson elected President. 1917 USA enters World War I. 1919 Prohibition begins. 1920 Women given the vote. 1925 Presbyterian William Jennings Bryan wins conviction of Scopes in famous Dayton, Tennessee "Monkey Trial." 1928 Norman Thomas, Presbyterian minister, runs for President as the Socialist Party candidate. 1929 Stock Market crashes, Depression begins. 1933 Prohibition repealed. 1941 USA enters World War II. 1946 Cold War begins. Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College, a Presbyterian school in Fulton, Missouri. 1952 Presbyterian Dwight Eisenhower elected President. 1954 School segregation ruled unconstitutional 1962 Presbyterian John Glenn orbits the earth 1963 March on Washington. M. L. King addresses crowd of 200,000. Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake also among the speakers. 1974 President Nixon resigns. 1975 Vietnam War ends. 1984 Presbyterian Ronald Reagan elected President. 1989 Berlin Wall demolished.

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