1920s

  • Public Radio Broadcast

    Public Radio Broadcast

    In 1920 was also the public radio broadcast. Lee de Forest was the one to discover this. The first radio station was opened in Detroit.
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations

    The league of nations was a group created to make sure that horror does not repeat itself. The founder was Woodrow Wilson and many different countries joined as well. They wanted to maintain world peace.
  • Women's right to vote

    Women's right to vote

    Woman got a right to vote. The 19th amendment has granted it. There was an association called the women's suffrage led by Lucy Stone.
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    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression was a timespan in the history of the US. The unemployed rate went up and soon the stock market crashed.
  • Stock Market crash

    Stock Market crash

    About 16 million shares were exchanged in New York making the stock market crash. Thousands of people have lost all of their money to this.
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    the Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl was a very serious time period when there were severe dust storms occurring repetitively. It destroyed plantations and crops of the farmers leaving them in debt.
  • Tariff act

    Tariff act

    This act has been brought 1930 and it put tariff on more than 20,000 goods that were being imported. They wanted to make more money off of the imported goods.
  • Bank closures.

    Bank closures.

    Lots of banks failed due to the outcome of the Great depression. People didn't make enough money due to the stock market crash and they could not pay back their loans, making the banks have no profit.
  • New Deal

    New Deal

    The new deal was President Roosevelts idea and it wanted to give more support to farmers and unemployed. It also wanted to shift to being a democratic country.
  • Roosevelt got elected

    Roosevelt got elected

    Roosevelt got elected as the new US president while the Great depression. He was the 32nd president of the US. He signed the New deal and