The Election Of 1920: James Cox vs. Warren G. Harding
Intro: Hello and welcome back to another edition of the presidential election series as will be discussing the election of 1920, two dark horse candidates battle it out to see who will lead the United States as commander and chief going into a new decade and a period of growing instability...So with that all said, let's get into it. The Fallout from World War One As you may recall from the 1916 election article, Woodrow Wilson won re-election on the promise to keep America out of the war and continue a sense of neutrality that was going on at the time...well like most politicians who end up getting elected to high office, the president went back on his campaign promise and got the United States involved in World War One. The decision to get the U.S. into the war was already in the minds of many especially after the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, but things changed upon the discovery of the Zimmermann Telegram which was a letter that basically saw the Germans asking Mexico to for