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Tarzan
The creation of the Tarzan series by the author Edgar Rice Burroughs. -
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The Rise of the Klan
The rise of the Ku Klux Klan initiated by the release of 'The Birth of a Nation' and the lynching of one Leo Frank. -
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Increase in Use of Credit for Purchase
A dramatic rise in the use of credit and debt for the purchase of household items, particularly automobiles. -
Prohibition
The infamous prohibition on Alcohol was eventually put into affect and remained in affect for the entirety of the 1920s -
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth's infamous fifty four home run streak shook the nation and reinvigorated the populace's interest in professional baseball. -
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The Prosperity Decade
A term for the 1920s, also dubbed The Roaring Twenties and The Jazz Age. -
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The Rise of Radio
This signifies the gradual rise of radio and the subsequent popularity of at home entertainment. -
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Rise of Flappers/Feminism
The gradual rise of the 'Flapper' lifestyle, which promoted premarital sex and the abandonment of Victorian morals. -
Election of President Warren G. Harding
The election of the twenty-ninth president of the United States, Warren G. Harding. -
Emergency Immigration Act
An act passed by Congress in order to reduce the amount of Eastern European, Asian, and Hispanic immigrants that were flooding the United States. -
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The Republican White House
The era of complete Republican domination of all United States politics and government. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a period in African-American history in which the black culture, especially in the Harlem district of New York. -
Death of Harding
The death of President Warren G. Harding due to a heart-attack. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The illegal sale of government land to an oil company by certain friends of the president, dubbed the Teapot Dome Scandal due to the shape of a nearby rock. -
The Promotion of Calvin Coolidge to President
The ascendancy of Calvin Coolidge to presidency after the death of the previous president Warren G. Harding. -
The Ten Commandments
The creation of an immense influence on cinema and the film-making arts, known as The Ten Commandments -
Dixie to Broadway
The first mainstream all black production with mainstream Broadway showings, it revolutionized African-American culture. -
The National Origins Act
A further, more permanent, attempt by the United States government to limit those immigrants whose heritage stemmed from Hispanic, Eastern European, or Asian origins. -
The Scopes Monkey Trial
The trial of a Tennessee school teacher that was accused of teaching his students the tenants of evolution and Darwinism. -
The Jazz Singer
The first movie with synchronized sound and movement, revolutionary in the way movies were made from that moment forward. -
First Trans-Atlantic Flight
The first trans-Atlantic flight was completed by one Charles Lindbergh in a single-pilot aircraft. -
The Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
An excellent example of the ever-increasing anti-immigrant mindset of the United States, two Italian anarchists were executed on very slim evidence connecting them with a robbery-murder combo in Massachusetts. -
Election of President Herbert Hoover
The election of engineer and businessman Herbert Hoover as President of the United States. -
Black Tuesday
The beginning of the slow and tottering crash of the American stock market. -
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The Great Depression
A series of economic failures, famines, and droughts that destroyed the economy and populace of the United States. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff was an economic order signed by President Herbert Hoover that ended up expediating both the United State's and the world's economic collapse. -
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Increase in Immigration Regulations
The economic plight of the United States led to a dramatic rise in anti-immigrant sentiment as well as the drastic increase in regulations regarding foreign immigrations. -
The 'Scottsboro Boys'
The Scottsboro Boys were a group of nine young men who were pulled off of a train in Scottsboro, Alabama and tried for a crime that they did not commit. -
Increased Economic Collapse
The year 1932 saw a dramatic increase in the amount of banks collapsing, and eventually led to the complete economic collapse of the United States. -
RFC (Reconstruction Finance Cooperation)
The RFC was founded by President Herbert Hoover in an attempt rebuild the collapsed banking system by providing loans and private industrial prowess. -
Bonus Army
A group of military veterans who demanded what whey were owed from the government, refused to leave Washington D.C, and were thus forcibly and violently evicted from the city. -
The Election of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected as president over Herbert Hoover in 1932. -
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The Dust Bowl
A series of droughts, famines, and high winds that, when combined, ruined the farmland of the Midwestern and Southern states and condemned many to starvation. -
National Bank Holiday
One of several drastic economic changes instituted by President Roosevelt in an attempt to revitalize the banking system and allow for their reserves to gradually refill. -
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
Another one of the myriad of acts passed by Congress and President Roosevelt in an attempt to cure the economic stress on American banks; its main goal was to separate commercial and investment banking. -
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New Deal
A series of dramatic economic and industrial reforms that would have pulled the United States back from the edge had it not been for a stint of botched politics. -
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Fireside Chats
A series of radio audiences held by President Roosevelt to further explain to the populace the purpose of the government's reforms. -
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New Deal Industrial Programs
A series of work project programs that included the establishment of AAA, the CCC, the TVA, the FERA, the NIRA, and the NRA. -
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Huey P. Long
A Democratic Senator from Louisiana who proposed a near-socialist economic format that promoted the general spread and share of wealth. -
Border Blockades
Western states such as California and Oregon gradually began to establish blockades on their borders and make the smuggling of migrants into the country illegal due to the immense over-population they began to experience. -
Wagner Act
An act passed by Congress in order to increase the rights of workers to unionize. -
Social Security Act
An act made by President Roosevelt that provided the elderly with a government provided income through their old-age. -
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The 'Second' New Deal
A series of new economic reforms following the elimination of several key original economic changes, including the creation of new work programs and industrial societies such as CIO, AFL, and the UAW. -
The 'Court-Packing' Scheme
An attempt by President Roosevelt to change the number of justices allowed on the Supreme Court previous to their evaluation of Roosevelts Social Security initiative. -
End of the New Deal
After Roosevelt's court-packing scheme, the United States Congress refused to back him on any further reforms and began to roll back those current ones. -
'The Grapes of Wrath'
John Steinbeck's literary masterpiece served as a symbol to the rest of the United States of what those migratory people of the Dust Bowl faced. -
Dunkirk
The retreat of Anglo-French forces from Continental Europe through what could only be called a military miracle. -
The Battle of Britain
A long-lasting air battle between the RAF and the Luftwaffe, which ended with the Luftwaffe's eventual abandonment of the isle and Britain's subsequent victory. As Winston Churchill so famously stated, "Never in the course of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few." -
Pearl Harbor
The destruction of the American naval base at Hawaii by the Japanese. -
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The Great Patriotic War
The Russian war against the German Nazi empire, begun through a German surprise operation against the Russian government, and ended by the Russian conquest of Berlin. Considered to be the worst war in human history, over four-million died in only the first six months of combat. -
Operation Barbarossa
A German military operation against the USSR, begun during an alliance between the two nations, the lack of warning allowed the German forces to push deep into Russia and they only even began to be forced back by the Russians in 1942.