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Warren G. Harding becomes President
In March 1921, Warren G. Harding takes an oath to become the twenty-ninth president of the United States. Winning the election by a landslide for promising a "return to normalcy". -
Emergency Immigration Act
Congress passes the Emergency Immigration Act as a temporary solution for an immigration measure. The act put into place made the number of immigrants annually admitted to the United States from each nation was restricted to 2 percent of the population who had come from that country and resided in the United States in 1890. The act explicitly excluded all Asian and Mexican immigrants. -
Calvin Coolidge Steps Up for President
Harding died suddenly of a heart attack and Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to President of the United States. As president, Coolidge said he would remove the stain of scandal but otherwise continued Harding’s economic approach, refusing to take actions in defense of workers or consumers against American business. -
Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris and successfully flies across the Atlantic in thirty-three hours. -
The Great Depression Begins
Stock market prices suddenly plummeted. Ten billion dollars in investments disappeared in a matter of hours. Panic grew across America in the matter of minutes. -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President and Delivers his New Deal
In the midst of the Great Depression, Roosevelt is elected president. In July 1, Roosevelt delivers one of the most famous onsite acceptance speeches in American Presidential history. He promised, “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” -
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The Second New Deal
Roosevelt worked with Congress to pass the National Labor Relations Act, offering federal legal protection, for the first time, for workers to organize unions. The Second New Deal oversaw the restoration of a highly progressive federal income tax, mandated new reporting requirements for publicly traded companies, refinanced long-term home mortgages for struggling homeowners, and attempted rural reconstruction to bring farm incomes in line with urban ones. -
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Germany annexes Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland
Germany annexed Austria and then set their sights on Czechoslovakia. This was not enough for Hitler's expansion in which lead to making demands on Poland. Poland was the final point to where Britain and France called for War -
Pearl Harbor
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Twenty-four hundred Americans were killed in the attack. -
America Enters WWII
Franklin Roosevelt called that December 7 (Pearl Harbor) is something that will live in infamy and called for a declaration of war, which Congress answered within hours. Within a week of Pearl Harbor the United States had declared war on the entire Axis, turning two previously separate conflicts into a true world war.