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Outside of the Muslim world, it appears alcohol prohibition only occurred in N. America and Scandinavia, and only in the early to mid 1900s. Why did these nations totally prohibit alcohol at around the same time, and re allow it at around the same time?

by /u/Schwarzy1 in /r/AskHistorians

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