1921 1941

1921-1941

By ellap09
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    1921-1941

    Many amazing and triumphant things happened throughout this era in time that moved our nation into bigger things. You will see things such as many new people taking office, the Great Depression, Hitler coming into the equation, and many other major things that happened.

  • Emergency Immigration Act

    Also known as the Johnson Act, this act was passed by congress to limit the immigration of aliens in to the United States, specifically from Europe.

  • Warren G. Harding

    Harding takes his place as the 29th President in the U.S. beginning in 1921 where he later died of a heart attack three years later. As president, Harding favored things such as pro-business policies and limited immigration.

  • The Ten Commandments

    In 1921 recently after WWI, Cecil B. Demille say it best fit to bring in new ideas of fashions and costumes in his films which later flooded Hollywood as in Paris.

  • Time Magazine is Published

    The first of the well known Time Magazine was published and set America on it's way to where it is now. This act in history ended up having a readership of 26 million and only grew until later years of the 2000s.

  • Harding Passes and Calvin Coolidge takes over

    After Harding passes from a heart attack, Coolidge takes over as the 30th President, leading the nation through most of the Roaring Twenties. Harding left a sort of suspicious reputation, yet Coolidge took over and erased that idea in America as President.

  • First Woman Governor

    In 1925, Nellie Taylor Ross became the first female governor in Wyoming. She brought in tax cuts, assisted for poor farmers, banking reform, and laws protecting children.

  • Air Commerce Act

    Congress passed this act to place the responsibility of fostering air commerce in the hands of the federal government which was passed by President Calvin Coolidge.

  • The Beginning of Mount Rushmore

    In the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota, the carving of Mount Rushmore began to later show the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. This idea was made to attract more tourists in South Dakota, but would not be finished until 12 years later.

  • Amelia Earhart

    In 1928, Earhart receives a phone call and invitation asking her to be the passenger to fly over the Atlantic Ocean in Frienship. This made Amelia the first woman to fly, taking 20 hours to get across the Atlantic when it now only takes about 7!

  • St. Valentines Day Massacre

    To consolidate control, Al Capone saw it most fit to combine killing and eliminating his enemies with trades of bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling. On Valentines Day of 1929, all of this commotion reached it's peek in a simple garage when 7 men affiliated with Capone's enemy, gangster George "Bugs" Moran, were all shot to death by his men dressed as police officers.

  • Finding Pluto

    The ninth planet, Pluto, is discovered at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh.

  • The Star-Spangled Banner

    The Star-Spangled Banner becomes America's National Anthem in 1931 by a congressional resolution.

  • Roosevelt as President

    Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as President in 1932 during the darkest of day for this nation. Roosevelt was elected during the Great Depression with hopes that FDR would help victory of the nation.

  • Civilian Conservation Corps

    This work relief program gave many of young men jobs and environmental projects during the Great Depression. This had to had been one of FDR's best ideas considering they planted more than three billion trees, constructed trails and shelter in more than 800 parks nationwide helping these men and the nation overcome the Great Depression.

  • Social Security Act

    This act was enabled to provide more adequate decisions and help for the general welfare by offering things and help in areas of those such as the aged and blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, and public health.

  • Reelection of Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt was reelected by a landslide against Alfred M. Landon.

  • Hindenburg Accident

    After 30 years of zeppelins and commercial air flight, no one ever saw the potential of one of these hurting anyone until the Hindenburg disaster killed 35 out of 97 people bringing the passenger airship to an end very quickly.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Reelected

    In the 1940 election, Roosevelt beat Republican Wendell Willkie, promising that there would be no involvement in foreign wars.

  • The Attack on Pearl Harbor

    This morning, the Japanese surprised attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Just after two hours, 24,000 Americans were dead from the bombing.