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The roaring twenties
The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. -
Washington Naval Conference
the world's largest naval powers gathered in Washington, D.C. for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia. -
Revenue Act slashes income tax on wealthy and corporations
was part of the Mellon Plan to lower tax rates and established the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals. It was called "An Act To reduce and equalize taxation, to provide revenue, and for other purposes. -
Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. -
Stock market crashes
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
Franklin Roosevelt elected
was in his second term as governor of New York when he was elected as the nation’s 32nd president. -
NRA, AAA, FDIC, TVA, FERA, CCC
These are six of the 10 new deal programs.Used mainly for recovery, relief and adjustment. -
Twentieth Amendment changes inauguration day to January
ending of the terms of the president and vice president -
Bank holiday, "Hundred Days"
The President greets enthusiastic supporters in Warm Springs, Ga. -
Hitler comes to power in Germany
Hitler is in authority in Germany as a totalitarian -
Twenty-first Amendment repeals prohibition
Prohibition movements caused the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. Then more lucrative movements caused congress to ratify the 21st amendment -
SEC
holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other. -
Gold standard terminated
Under this system, both banks and the government stand ready to redeem their note and deposit liabilities in gold at the stipulated rate. -
Social Security Act, WP, NLRA
The Committee on Economic Security released its Report to President Roosevelt. -
U. S. Begins neutrality legislation
Lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.” -
CIO formed
The Congress of Industrial Organizations was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada -
FDR re-elected
Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide for his second term -
FDR attempts to pack Supreme Court
add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Japan invades China
was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. -
United States Housing Authority
It was designed to lend money to the states or communities for low-cost construction. -
World War 2 begins
when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state in retaliation. -
Roosevelt makes destroyers-for-bases deal with the British
Roosevelt's compromise for helping Britain as he could not sell Britain US destroyers without defying the Neutrality Act; Britain received 50 old but still serviceable US destroyers in exchange for giving the US the right to build military bases on British Islands in the Caribbean. -
Fall of France
German troops enter and occupy Paris.British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had tried for days to convince the French government to hang on, not to sue for peace, that America would enter the war and come to its aid. -
First peacetime draft
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Service and Training Act, which requires all male citizens between the ages of 26 and 35 to register for the military draft. The act had been passed by Congress 10 days earlier. -
After WWII
Occupation and Reconstruction of Japan, 1945–52. After the defeat of Japan in World War II, the United States led the Allies in the occupation and rehabilitation of the Japanese state.