1920's-1950's

  • Charles Lindbergh completes flight across Atlantic Ocean

  • Kellog-Briand Pact was signed

  • Penicillin was Discovered

  • Hoover inaugurated (ends Mar. 4 1933)

  • Black Thursday

  • Black Tuesday

  • Gandhi starts Salt March to protest British.

  • Star-Spangled Banner becomes America’s official national anthem

  • Empire State Building Opens

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • AL Capone gets sentenced to prison because of tax evasion

  • Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

  • Lindbergh’s was baby kidnapped

  • FDR was elected president

  • Veterans Bonus March

  • Franklin D Roosevelt was inaugurated

  • Hugh Gray photographs the Loch Ness Monster

  • 21st Amendment ratified, counteracting the 18th Amendment

  • Bonnie and Clyde killed by police

  • Germans pass Nuremberg Laws, which discriminate against Jews

  • Mussolini leads Italians and takes over Ethiopia

  • Spanish Civil War Begins

  • Berlin Olympics begin

  • The Hindenburg explodes

  • Amelia Earhart disappeared

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs animated film released

  • FDR founds March of Dimes to try to get funding for polio research

  • Orson Welles broadcasted “War of the Worlds” inducing widespread panic

  • Pearl Harbor is bombed by Japanese fleet