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Steel Strike Ends
The Great Steel Strike of 1919 ends with capitulation by the steel workers -
19th Amendment
Granting women to vote -
Senate Rejects League
The Senate refuses to ratify the Versailles Treaty or authorize United states participation in the league of nations. -
sacco- vanzetti trial
the sacco vanzetti trial begins immigrant italian radicals nicota sacco and bartolomeo vanzetti will eventually be convicted of murder and executed -
Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium the "House that Ruth Built" is constructed in the Bronx New York. -
harding dies
President Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. vice president calvin ascends to presidency. -
ford motor company
the market capitalization of ford motor company ascends 1 billion -
Klansmen March
40,000 KU KLUX Klansmen march on washington, their white hooded procession filling pennsylvania avenue. -
The Start of The Great Depression.
It began after the stock market crash and which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Black Thursday
A nervous investor began to sell overpriced shares in masse, the stock market crashed that some had feared happen at last. A record 12.9 million shares were traded that day, known as "Black Thursday" -
Desperate Banks
In the Fall of 1930, the First of Four waves of banking panics began, as a large numbers of investors lost confidence in the solvency of their banks and demanded deposits in cash forcing banks to liquidate loans in order to supplement their insufficient cash reserves on hand. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt's election
The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II. In so doing, he greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal, and he served as the principal architect of the successful effort to rid the world of German National Socialism and Japanese militarism -
Unemployment Rate
In 1933 when the Great Depression reached its lowest point, about 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country's banks had failed. -
The Famous Quote
During the Inauguration Day, every U.S. state had an order of all remaining banks to close at the end of the fourth wave of banking panics, and the U.S. treasury did not have enough cash to pay all government workers. Nonetheless, FDR projected a calm energy and optimism, famously declaring that " The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -
CHANGE
Roosevelt's first 100th in the office, his administration passed legislation that aimed to stabilize industrial and agricultural production, create jobs and stimulate recovery. In addition, Roosevelt sought to reform the financial system, creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to protect depositors' accounts and the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the stock market. -
Supreme Leader
After becoming Reich Chancellor in 1933, Hitler swiftly consolidated power, anointing himself Furhrer in the 1934. Being obsessed with the idea of the superiority of the "pure" German race. -
Troops Occupy Austria
After signing alliance with Italy and Japan against the Soviet Union, Hitler sent troops to occupy Austria in 1938 and the following year annexed Czechoslovakia. -
The German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
In the late August 1939, Hitler and the Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, which incited a frenzy of worry London and Paris. Hitler and long planned an Invasion of Poland, a nation to which Great Britain and France had guaranteed military support if it was attacked by Germany. -
The Start of World War II
Sparked by Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939, the war would drag on for six deadly years until the final Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. -
WAR BREAK OUT
Depression-Era hardships had fueled the rise of extremist political movements in various European countries, most notably that of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime in Germany. German aggression led war to break out in Europe in 1939 and the WPA turned its attention to strengthening the military infrastructure of the United States, even as the country maintained its neutrality. -
Invasion of Norway
During April 9,1940, Germany simultaneously invaded Norway and occupied Denmark, and the war began in earnest. -
entry to paris
GERMAN FORCES ENTERED PARIS -
CRUCIAL AID
WITH Britains defensive resources pushed to the limit Prime Minister winston churchill began receiving crucial aid from the U.S -
ORDERED INVASION
HITLER ORDERED THE INVASION OF THE SOVIET UNION CODE NAMED OPERATION BARBOSSA -
PEARL HARBOR
360 japanese aircraft attacked the major U.S. naval base at pearl harbor in Hawaii taking the Americans completely by surprised and claiming the lives of more than 2,300 troops