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Washington Naval Conference
The Washington Naval Conference, was a disarmament conference called by The United States and held in Washington, D.C., from November 12, 1921 to February 6, 1922. It was conducted outside the auspice of the League of Nations. -
Revenue Act
Cut federal tax rates and established the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals, which was later renamed the United States Tax Court in 1942. -
Lindbergh Crosses Atlantic
He made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. Lindbergh's feat gained him immediate, international fame. -
1929 Stock Market Crash
The stock market crash of 1929 was a collapse of stock prices that began on Oct. 24, 1929. By Oct. 29, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped 24.8%, marking one of the worst declines in U.S. history. It destroyed confidence in Wall Street markets and led to the Great Depression. -
Hitler rises to Power
Hitler's "rise" can be considered to have ended in March 1933, after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month. President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. -
Bank Holiday
After a month-long run on American banks, Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed a Bank Holiday, beginning March 6, 1933, that shut down the banking system. When the banks reopened on March 13, depositors stood in line to return their hoarded cash. -
NRA
The National Recovery Administration was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The goal of the administration was to eliminate "cut throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. -
Gold Reserve Act
Required that all gold and gold certificates held by the Federal Reserve be surrendered and vested in the sole title of the United States Department of the Treasury. ... Roosevelt changed the statutory price of gold from $20.67 per troy ounce to $35. -
SEC Act
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is a law governing the secondary trading of securities in the United States of America. A landmark of wide-ranging legislation, the Act of '34 and related statutes form the basis of regulation of the financial markets and their participants in the United States. -
CIO Formed
The Congress of Industrial Organizations was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. -
Social Security Act
In 1934 Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt set up a committee on economic security to consider the matter; after studying its recommendations, Congress in 1935 enacted the Social Security Act, providing old-age benefits to be financed by a payroll tax on employers and employees. -
FDR Re-election
FDR was re-elected in 1936 before being re-elected again in 1940 becoming first president to serve 3 terms in office. -
FDR tries to pack Supreme Court
The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the Court had ruled unconstitutional. -
Japan Invades China
The Japanese invaded Manchuria to protect their interests in the railroad and the Kwantung Leased Territory.Eventually, in 1937, the Japanese provoked the Chinese into full-scale war with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. -
WW2 Begins
The two dates most often mentioned as “the beginning of World War II” are July 7, 1937, when the “Marco Polo Bridge Incident” led to a prolonged war between Japan and China, and September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state in retaliation. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
Is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. -
U.S Housing Authority
It was designed to lend money to the states or communities for low-cost construction -
Munich Agreement
settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. -
Fall of France
Was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. On 3 September 1939 France had declared war on Germany, following the invasion of its ally Poland. -
First Peacetime Draft
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, enacted September 16, 1940, was the first peacetime conscription in United States history. All males between the ages of 21 to 35 are required to register for the draft. A lottery system determines who will be called into service. -
Pearl Harbor Bombed
It was on December 7th, 1941 that 353 Japanese bombers attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, destroying 19 ships, 188 aircraft and killing over 2,000 Americans. It was this act that drove the United States into World War II.