1921-1941

By maliq_brock

  • Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th president

  • President Harding dies suddenly

    Succeeded by his vice president, Calvin Coolidge.

  • Coolidge's second inauguration

  • Tennessee passes a law against the teaching of evolution in public schools.

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    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis

  • Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st president

  • Stock market crash precipitates the Great Depression.

  • The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem

  • Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate

    Reelected in 1932 and 1938.

  • Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman

  • Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified

    Sometimes called the “Lame Duck Amendment,” moved the president's inauguration date from March 4 to Jan. 20

  • Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president.

  • Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution is ratified

    Repealed the Prohibition

  • Social Security Act is passed

  • F. Roosevelt's second inauguration

  • Fair Labor Standards Act is passed

    Set the first minimum wage in the U.S. at 25 cents per hour
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    World War II

  • F. Roosevelt's third inauguration

    He is the first and only president elected to a third term.

  • Pearl Harbor

  • U.S. declares war on Japan.

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; U.S. reciprocates by declaring war on both countries