1921-1941

By Cbiggers4

  • Warren G. Harding

    Harding takes office as the 29th president.

  • Emergency Immigration Act

    Congress passed this at to act as a stopgap immigration measure.

  • The Ten Commandments

    Cecil B. DeMille created the epic The Ten Commandments.

  • The Jazz Singer

    The first movie with synchronized words and pictures.

  • Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

    Both of these two Italian anarchists were executed for fear of foreign radicals.

  • Charles Lingbergh

    Lindbergh finished the first ever nonstop flight from New York to Paris.

  • Herbert Hoover

    Hoover won the presidential election of 1928.

  • The Great Depression

    Stock market prices plummeted and the Great Depression began.

  • Hawley Tariff of 1930

    Herbert Hoover signed this tariff which is known as the highest tariff in American history.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    Roosevelt won the presidential election of 1932.

  • Stimson Doctrine

    Refused to recognize any state established as a result of Japanese aggression.

  • New Deal

    Roosevelt developed many institutions and acts to combat the depression and put America back on track economically.

  • Agricultural Adjustment Administration

    This administration was created to raise prices of agricultural commodities to limit farm production.

  • National Recovery Administration

    This administration suspended antitrust laws to allow businesses to regulate production and create fair competition.

  • Adolf Hitler

    Hitler became chancellor of Germany.

  • Fireside Chats

    Roosevelt appeared on the radio for the first time to talk to the American people about what his administration was planning to do.

  • Wagner Act

    This act allowed workers to unionize.

  • National Labor Relations Act

    Roosevelt administered this act to protect workers organizing unions giving them federal legal protection.

  • Social Security Act

    Part of Roosevelt's Second New Deal, this act provided for the benefits of both the elderly and the disabled.

  • The Roosevelt Recession of 1937

    Roosevelt cut spending and the economy receded to levels almost like the Great Depression.

  • Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

    The last major New Deal measure which established minimum wage, overtime pay as well as child labor standards.

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck came out with his book which captured the Depression's dislocated populations.

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invaded Poland which started WWII.

  • World War II

    The United States joined the fight in WWII.

  • Executive Order 8802

    Roosevelt signed this order to prohibit racial discrimination in the military.

  • Four Freedoms

    Roosevelt announced his Four Freedoms including the freedom of speech, worship, from want, and from fear.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.