1920-1941 By corbinfowler 1921 Washington Naval Conference 1927 Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic 1929 Stock market crashes 1932 Franklin Roosevelt elected 1933 Hitler comes to power in Germany 1934 Gold standard terminated 1935 Social Security Act created 1936 FDR re-elected 1937 Japan invades China 1938 Hitler takes Austria 1938 United States Housing Authority 1939 World War 2 begins 1940 Roosevelt makes destroyers-for-bases deal with the British 1940 Fall of France 1941 Hitler attacks USSR 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor