Timeline

By rileyarmstrong1

  • Great Depression and Dust Bowl

    1. 1920s: More submarginal lands were put into production
    2. 1929: Market crash aka the Great Depression
    3. 1931: Dust Bowl Begins
    4. 1932: Federal aid
    5. 1935: The term "Dust Bowl" as made
    6. 1937: 21% of all rural families in the Great Plain were receiving federal emergency relief
    7. 1942: The Dust Bowl ends
    8. 1950s: Another severe drought spread across the U.S., but its impacts were lessened due to the lessons learned from the Dust Bowl

  • 1920s and Prohibition

    1. 1920: Women's Suffrage
    2. 1923: Great Kanto Earthquake
    3. Nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages
    4. 1920: United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan tried to make an alliance to prevent another world war.
    5. 1933- 1934: 1,140,000 communist party members are expelled by Stalin
    6. 1933: Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany
    7. 1933: The German Reichstag passes the Enabling Act
    8. Leon Blum's popular front government comes to power in France

  • Great Depression and Dust Bowl

  • 1960s and public protests (Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam)

  • 1960s and public protests (Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam)

    1. The civil rights movement
    2. The student movement
    3. The anti-Vietnam War movement
    4. The women's movement
    5. The gay rights movement
    6. The environmental movement