The Roaring 20s Project

By gretsuk.t

  • Woodrow Wilson begins his presidency

  • Panama Canal opens

  • Signs the Clayton Anti-trust Act

  • Woodrow Wilson is reelected President

  • White House releases content of the Zimmerman Note

  • United States declares war on Germany

  • Warren G. Harding begins his presidency

  • Signs the Emergency Quota Act

  • The Supreme Court finds the 19th Amendment constitutional

  • Teapot Dome Scandal begins to unfold

  • Harding and his wife leave for his transcontinental tour

  • Calvin Coolidge begins his presidency after Harding's death

  • The Dawes Plan is signed by the United States, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Belgium

  • Calvin Coolidge wins presidential election

  • Congress establishes the Army Air Corps

  • Congress creates the Federal Radio commission to regulate national and international communication

  • The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed by the US and 15 other nations

  • Herbert Hoover begins his presidency

  • The construction contract for the Empire State Building is awarded

  • "Black Tuesday" marks the beginning of the Great Depression

  • Construction of the Hoover Dam begins in Las Vegas

  • Hoover establishes the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt begins his presidency

  • Roosevelt's "Hundred Days" begins, during which Congress enacts many of the programs of FDR's "New Deal."

  • Establishes Federal Housing Administration

  • Signs the Social Security Act

  • Signs Neutrality Act which imposes a mandatory arms embargo on all belligerents

  • Sends messages to Hitler and Mussolini seeking assurance that they will not invade 31 independent nations