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Nineteenth Amendment gives woman the right to vote.
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Automobile
The automobile became the backbone of the American economy in the 1920s (and remained such until the 1970s). It frofoundly altered the American landscape and American society, but was only one of several factors in the country's business boom of the 1920s. -
Airplanes
The aiplane industry began as a mail carrying service for the U.S. Post Office. Although the first flight in 1918 was a disaster, a number of successful flights soon established the airplane as a peacetime means of transportation. With the development of weather forcasting, planes began carrying radios and navigational instruments. Henry Ford made a trimotor airplane in 1926. Transatlantic plights by Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart helped to promote cargo and commercial airlines. -
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Al Capone
By age 26, Al Capone headed a criminal empire in Chicago, which he controlled through the use of bribes and violence. From 1925 to 1931, Capone bootlegged whiskey from Canada, operated illegal brewerries in Chicago, and rand a network of 10,000 speakeasies. in 1927, the "Big Fellow," as he was called, was worth an estimated $100 million. The end came quickly for Capone, though. In 1931, the gangster chief was arrested for tax evasion and went to jail. -
Start Of The Stock Market Crash
In early September, stock prices peaked and then fell. confidence in the market started to waver, and some investors quickly sold their stocks and pulled out. On october 24, the market took a plunge. panicked investors unloaded their shares. but the worst was still to some. -
Black Tuesday - The Start Of The Great Depression
Black Tuesday was a day during the stock market fall. It was the day that the market fell the most. People Frantically tried to sell before prices plunged even lower. There were atleast 16.4 million shares dumped on that Tuesday. -
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The Dust Bowl
The drought that began in the early 1930's wreaked havoc on the Great Plains. During the decades before, farmers from Texas, to North Dekoda used tractors to breakup the grasslands and plant millions of acres of new farmland. This plowing removed all of the top soil from the land leaving the soil exhuasted and useless. Plants could no longer grow in this soil, and the soil could not hold together. the soil became dust and the dust blow thousands of mile. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
In 1930, congress passes the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, which established the highest protective teriff in United States history. It was designed to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition.yet it had the opposite effect. By reducing the flow of goods into the United States, the teriff prevented other coutries from earing American currency to buy American goods. The teriff made unemployment worse in industries that could no longer export goods to Europe. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht, also known as Night of Broken Glass, was the night that Nazi Germans destroyed Jewish neighborhoods. -
Start of Workd War II
It is believed that World War II started on the first of September, 1939, when France and Britain declared war on Germany for invading Poland. -
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World War II
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The United States was attacked by the Japanese on the seventh of December, 1941. The attack came as a surprise on America and caught them off guard killing 2,402 Americans. This attack led directly to the envolvement of the United States in World War II. -
Harry S. Truman
Truman suddenly became President when FDR dies in 1945. Many people believed that he was not up for the job of being a President but he was honest and willing to make tough decisions, qualities that would prove to be helpfull later in his Presidency. -
United Nations (UN)
On the 25th of April, 1945, representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco to establish this new peacekeeping body. On June 26, 1945, the delegates signed the charter establishing the UN. -
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The Cold War
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H-Bomb
The scientists that developed the atomic bomb believed that it was possible to create a hydrogen bomb, 67 times more powerfull than an atomic one. On November 1, 1952, the United States won the race and exploded the first H-Bomb.
