The United States Goes Dry - Alcohol Prohibition I THE GREAT WAR

In January 1920, after one year of preparation, the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution went into effect. From now on alcohol prohibition was the law.   » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatwar  Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A/join   » OUR PODCAST https://realtimehistory.net/podcast - interviews with World War 1 historians and background info for the show.   » BUY OUR SOURCES IN OUR AMAZON STORES https://realtimehistory.net/amazon * *Buying via this link supports The Great War (Affiliate-Link)   » SOURCES  Ehmer, K. and Hindermann, B. (2015). The School of Sophisticated Drinking. New York: Greystone Books. Miron and Zwiebel, Alcohol Consumption During Prohibition. In the American Economic Review, Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 242-247, (May 1991). Darrow, Clarence, and John Haynes Holmes. Debate On Prohibition. Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924. Iorizzo, Luciano J. Al Capone. Greenwood Press, 2003. Nemtsov, Aleksandr. A Contemporary History of Alcohol in Russia. Stockholm, 2011. Sullivan, Edward D. Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime. New York: The Vangaurd Press, 1929. United States Government, Codification of Internal Revenue Laws, ... Published Pursuant to Section 1203(c) Revenue Act of 1926. 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/images/18thamendment.pdf United States Department of Agriculture. Crop Production Historical Track Records, 2018. https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/reports/croptr18.pdf Kamieński, Łukasz: Drugs , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2019-03-07 Blocker, Jack S Jr. “Did prohibition really work? Alcohol prohibition as a public health innovation.” American journal of public health vol. 96,2 (2006): 233-43. » MORE THE GREAT WAR Website: https://realtimehistory.net  Facebook: https://facebook.com/TheGreatWarYT Instagram: https://instagram.com/the_great_war Twitter: https://twitter.com/WW1_Series Reddit: htpps://reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel   » OTHER PROJECTS  16 DAYS IN BERLIN: https://realtimehistory.net/pages/16-days-in-berlin   »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Maps: Daniel Kogosov (https://www.patreon.com/Zalezsky) Research by: Jesse Alexander Fact checking: Florian Wittig   Channel Design: Alexander Clark Original Logo: David van Stephold   Contains licensed material by getty images All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2020