The allies threw 7,800 bodies at the Battle of Blanc Mont right as the war was ending. Two days after the battle, Germany requested an armistice, and the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires disintegrated. Two months later in the US in 1919, prohibition went into effect, 26 cities had violent race riots, and the Attorney General began a purge of immigrants and communists. In 1920, the Republican Party returned to the White House with the landslide victory of Warren G. Harding, who promised a "return to normalcy" after the years of war, ethnic hatreds, race riots and exhausting reforms. Harding used new advertising techniques to lead the GOP to a massive landslide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(...