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1921-1941

By smartdcj

  • washington naval conference

    Gathering of the largest naval powers

  • Revenue Act

    slashes income tax on wealthy and corporations

  • Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic

  • Stock market crashes

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected 32nd president

  • Hundred day Bank holiday

  • 20th amendment

    changes inauguration day to January

  • 21st amendment

    repeals prohibition

  • Hitler comes to power in Germany

  • Gold standard terminated

  • Social security act

    benefits for workers, victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.

  • FDR reelected

  • Japan invades China

  • FDR attempts to pack Supreme Court

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

    creates the right to a minimum wage, and overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week

  • United States Housing Authority

    designed to lend money to the states or communities for low-cost construction

  • Hitler takes Austria, Munich agreement

    settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland

  • world war 2 begins

  • Fall of France

    German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War

  • First peacetime draft