1921-1941

  • 1921

    Washington Naval Conference
  • 1924

    Revenue Act slashes income tax on wealthy and corporations
  • 1927

    Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic
  • 1929

    Stock market crashes
  • 1932

    Franklin Roosevelt elected
  • 1933

    Bank holiday, "Hundred Days"
    NRA, AAA, FDIC, TVA, FERA, CCC
    Twentieth Amendment changes inauguration day to January
    Twenty-first Amendment repeals prohibition
    Hitler comes to power in Germany
  • 1934

    Gold standard terminated
    SEC
  • 1935

    Social Security Act, WP, NLRA
    CIO formed
    U. S. Begins neutrality legislation
  • 1936

    FDR re-elected
  • 1937

    FDR attempts to pack Supreme Court
    Japan invades China
  • 1938

    United States Housing Authority
    Fair labor Standards Act
    Hitler takes Austria, Munich Agreement
  • 1939

    World War 2 begins
  • 1940

    Roosevelt makes destroyers-for-bases deal with the British
    Fall of France
    First peacetime draft
  • 1941

    Lend-Lease, Battle of Britain, Hitler attacks USSR
    Atlantic Charter
    Japan attacks Pearl Harbor