1921-1941

By william_Leslie

  • President Harding dies; Vice President Coolidge becomes the 30th President

    Vice President Coolidge becomes the 30th President

  • Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight

    American aviator who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

  • The stock market crash began the Great Depression

    It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century.

  • Herbert C. Hoover becomes the 31st President

    Charles Curtis becomes the Vice President

  • Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

    Valentine's Day murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang.

  • Amelia Earhart was the first woman to complete a solo non-stop transatlantic flight

    disappeared July 2, 1937

  • President Franklin Delano Roosevelt establishes Work Projects Administration to combat Depression-era unemployment

    This poster featuring the head and shoulders of a coal miner was made in 1937 for the Work Projects Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project in Pennsylvania. One of the New Deal programs launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat Depression-era unemployment, in 1936–43 the WPA supported the creation of more than 2,000 posters by well-known artists.

  • Dust storms begin on the Great Plains

    During the Great Depression of the 1930s, agricultural workers fled the Dust Bowl conditions on the Great Plains in search of employment in the American West.

  • World War II began.

    The U. S. declared neutrality

  • U.S. declared war on Japan after attacks at Hawaii

    Guam and the Philippines; Germany and Italy declared war on the U. S. and the U. S. reciprocated