7.2 timeline

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  • Woodrow Wilson Suffers a Stroke

    while on a speaking tour promoting the League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke, leaving him largely incapacitated for the final 18 months of his term. He dies on February 3rd, 1924.

  • Prohibition begins.

    The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution becomes official. Alcoholic beverages can no longer be made, sold, or transported in the United States.

  • Women can vote.

    The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution becomes official. Women age twenty-one years and older now have the right to vote.

  • Sacco-Vanzetti Trial

    The Sacco-Vanzetti trial begins. Immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will eventually be convicted of murder and executed.

  • cars and radios

    President Warren Harding dies. Vice-President Calvin Coolidge becomes President. Coolidge will run for re-election in 1924 and will become the 30th President of the United States.

  • The televisor is created.

    Ir John Logie Baird of Scotland demonstrates a machine that sends moving images over airwaves. He calls his machine a televisor.

  • First liquid-fueled rocket fires.

    Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket in Massachusetts. He will be called the Father of Modern Rocket Propulsion.

  • Immigrant Radicals Executed

    With all possible avenues of appeal now exhausted, Italian immigrant radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed by electric chair.

  • The movies talk!

    The Jazz Singer becomes the first full-length motion picture with sound and songs. Movies will now be known as "talkies."

  • Walt Disney speaks for Mickey Mouse.

    Walt Disney releases Steamboat Willie, his first cartoon with synchronized sound. Mickey is voiced by Disney himself.
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    the great depression

    during the great depression The economy started to shrink and the stock market crash in October. It began growing again in 1938, but unemployment remained above 10 percent until 1941.

  • The stock market crashes.

    On a day called "Black Thursday," stock market prices start to drop. The stock market "crashes" when prices keep dropping and by the end of November, the stock market loses $30 billion.

  • Hoovers says the worst is over.

    President Herbert Hoover tells Americans that the economy will start to improve within the next 60 days. The Great Depression is actually just getting started.

  • Roosevelt is elected president.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president for the first time. Many Americans did not think that President Hoover did enough to help them and hope that Roosevelt will end the Depression.

  • The Emergency Banking Act is passed.

    Congress passes the Emergency Banking Act. By the end of the month, almost all of the banks that had closed when the Depression started are open again.

  • Social security is created.

    The Social Security Act is signed. The Act provides money every month for senior citizens.

  • Mussolini Invades Ethiopia

    Italy, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, invades Ethiopia.

  • neutrality act

    in 1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act, to ban travel on belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents, and issues an arms embargo with warring nations.

  • Roosevelt Limits Ships to Asia

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to stop U.S. ships from carrying arms to China or Japan.

  • Roosevelt Quarantines War

    In response to Japanese action in China, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a speech in which he calls for peace-loving nations to act together to "quarantine" aggressors to protect the world from the "disease" of war.

  • Attack on the Panay

    Japanese warplanes dive-bomb the American gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River in China. Japan apologizes and pays reparations for the lives lost.

  • Naval Expansion Act

    The U.S. Congress passes the Naval Expansion Act giving President Franklin D. Roosevelt one billion dollars to enlarge the navy.

  • Hermann Goering Warns Jews

    Hermann Goering, marshal of the Third Reich and Hitler's second in charge, warns all Jews to leave Austria.

  • Senate Blocks Aid to Allies

    A group of U.S. Senators block the President's request for permission to offer economic aid to Britain and France in case of war.

  • Hitler Annexes Czechoslovakia

    Adolf Hitler reneges on the promise made in September of 1938 and takes all of Czechoslovakia.