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Al Jolson talking movie "Jazz Singer"
The highest paid entertainer at the time. He was also famous for the song" Brother can you spare a dime". His movie called "Jazz Singer" was the first film with synchorized speech.
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kellog Briand Pact
Pact of Paris, general treaty for Renunciation of war as an instument of national policy. International agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "dispute or conflicts of whatever nature. -
Herbert Hoover
After President Coolidge decided not to run for office, Herbert Hoover was nominated for the republican candidate in 1928. His platform was a followed " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land" A year later the stock market crash. -
Black Tuesday
It is said to have started the economic depression worldwide and numerous closures of organization leading to massive loss of jobs. -
Smooth Hawley Tariff
This was sponsored by Senator Reed Smooth and Willis Hawley and signed into law to raise United States tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record level. -
Scoottsboro Trial
Nine (9) black youths were accused, charged and indicted with raping two white women in Alabama. This groundbreaking case tested the limits of race relations in the United Syates. -
Al Capone Convicted
Al Capone was convicted on federal charges of income tax evasion. He was sent to Alcatraz federal prison, was released on parole in 1939. He died on January 25, 1947 from cardiac arrest after a stroke. -
Lindbergh baby kidnapped
Kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. son of avaitor Charles Lindbergh, most highly publicized crime of the 20 th century. The 20 month old child was stolen from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. ON May 12, 1932 his body was discovered a short distance from his home in the neighboring Hopewell Township, cause of death was a massive skull fracture. -
Amelia Earhart first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart was an american aviator, pioneer and a author. She was the first ffemale to fly across the Atlasntic Ocean. She wrote many books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of "The Ninety Nines" an orgabnization of female pilots. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
Japan invaded Manchuria and established a puppet state called Manchukoo. This lasted untill the end of World War 11 in 1945. -
FDR launches New Deal
FDR new deal program would seek to deliver relif, recovery and reform. The Relief - millions of americans were employed to the Civilian Conservation Corps and Workers Program Administration.
The Reform- this is the first the state was committed to providing individual citizen with a measure of security against unpredictable turns of the market.
In Recovery-It was mostly successful in short term relief, implementary long terms structural reform. It didnot end depression. -
Dust Bowl
A strong 2 days duststorm removed massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil and blew it all the way to Chicago where 12 million pound of dust were deposited. Two days later the same storm reached cities in the East as Buiffalo, Boston, Cleveland, New York City and Washington D.C. -
Social Security Act
This was drafted during FranklinDelano Roosevelt first term. The act was an attempt to limit the burdens of widows and fatherless children. Roosevelt became the first President to advocate federal assisstance for elderly. -
John Maynard Keysian
According to Keysian economics, state intervention was necessay to moderate "boom and bust" of economic activity. He advocate the use of fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions and depressions. -
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil war started July 17,1936 and ended April1, 1939. This was between the loyalist Republican to the Spanish Republic and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco. The Nationalists won and ruled Spain for 36 years until his death in 1975. -
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. The dam harness lines the power of the mighty Colorado river and transmispanning 266 miles of mountains, deserts to run lights, radios and stoves. -
Golden Gate Bridge
This is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate Strait, the mile wide three miles long channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. This links the U.S. City of SanFrancisco , on the northern tip of San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. -
Roosevelt 's Court packing plan
Roosevelt nominated Black to fill the vacancy of Supreme Court Justice. For the first time since 1853, the senate departed from its tradition to confirm the appointment of a sitting Senator without debate, instead it referred the nomination to the Judiciary Committee. -
Germany Annexed Austria
Hitler tried to coerce Schuschnigg to replace his cabinet with Austrian nazi. He resigned on March 9 and Hitler and his german troops marched on March 12 and annexed the german speaking nation. -
The Night of Broken Glass ( Kristallnacht)
Jewish synagogues and businesses wer destroyed. 7000 jewsh businessess were burnt, 900 synagogues , 91 jews were killed and over 300,000 jews were deported. This incident was in retaliation to a 17 year old polish jew who had shot the third secretary in the german embassy because his parente were denied a visa. -
Albert Einstein
On August 2nd, Albert Einstein and a group of scientist wrote a letter to President F.D. Roosevelt telling him about their life in Germany where they were experimenting to purify uranium-235 to make an atomic bomb. Shortly the "Manhattan Project" was expediting research to produce a viable atomic bomb. -
World War 11 ( 1939- 1945)
Germany invaded Poland from land andfrom the air. Hitler seek to regain lost territory. He used 'blitzkrieg" strategy. That is extensive bombing to destroy enemies air capacity, railroads, communication lines, munition dumps, followed by land invasion, tanks, artillery. finally infantry to complete task.
