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Warren G. Harding is Inaugurated as the twenty-ninth President of the United States. He promises a "return to normalcy." -
While on tour, President Warren G. Harding dies suddenly. -
A day after President Harding's death, Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the thirtieth President of the United States. -
The Scopes Trial, a trial for a schoolteacher accused of teaching evolution, begins. It will transform into a debate between William Jennings Bryan, an advocate of Christianity and Creation, and Clarence Darrow, an agnostic and advocate of evolution. -
Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the thirty-first President of the United States. -
A member of President Harding's cabinet, Albert B. Fall, is found guilty during a scandal involving the Wyoming oil reserve Teapot Dome. -
The stock market crashes on "Black Tuesday", revealing the economic instability that will send the United States into the Great Depression. -
The "Bonus Army", a group of World War I veterans demanding that their bonuses be paid, demonstrate in Washington D.C. Herbert Hoover sends the U.S. Army to suppress the Bonus Army, causing mayhem and injuring the president's reputation. -
The Twentieth Amendment, which moves the beginning and end of presidential terms from March 4 to January 20 and the beginning and end of congressional terms from March 4 to January 3, is adopted. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt begins a program designed to bring government aid to the nation and end the Great Depression. It is referred to as the "New Deal". -
Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the thirty-second President of the United States. -
The Fireside Chats, radio talks in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the people on the nation's political situation, begin. -
The Twenty-first Amendment, which repeals the Eighteenth Amendment, or the prohibition of alcohol, is ratified. -
The Social Security Act, which provides grants to the elderly and those in need, is passed. It is one lasting aspect of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. -
After the nation of Germany, which is quickly rising in power under Adolf Hitler, invades Poland, France and Britain declare war on Germany and begin World War II. -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt founds the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), which helps to stifle discrimination of minorities in the workplace. -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet to create the Atlantic Charter, which will later help in forming the United Nations. -
The Japanese launch a surprise attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Although the attack is intended to deprive the United States of military strength and keep it from entering the war, the attack only serves to bring the nation out of neutrality. -
The United States enters World War II only days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.