Amendment XVIII

"1: After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

2: The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

3: This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress."

The eighteenth amendment laid down the framework for the period of Prohibition: a time in which the sale and ownership of alcohol was illegal within the United States. It was a mistake and it never should have been enacted in the first place.

This image reflects a couple of different things about the United States at the time of Prohibition. First, it shows that they were willing to use the image of a soldier to promote an idea of patriotism behind banning the sale of alcohol in the United States. They also insinuate that drinking alcohol goes against what the military and soldiers stand and fight for. This is a tactic that is still used heavily in modern politics. 

Prohibition had passed and the United States became a dry country, at least on paper. The time of Prohibition sparked a huge age of alcohol smuggling within the United States and enraged many citizens.