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May 17, 1398
The Naval Expansion Act passes
The Naval Expansion Act passes -
Harding Wins Presidency
Warren G. Harding became the 29th President of the United States in 1921. One of his primary campaign promises was a 'return to normalcy.' In the aftereffects of WWI, American citizens greatly desired a return to what they considered regular life. Ironically, the 1920s were a period of great turmoil in society as women took more active roles, opinions on race continued to change, and innovation reshaped consumerism. -
Emergency Immigration Act
A national quota system on the amount of incoming immigrants is established by the United States Congress in the Emergency Quota Act, curbing legal immigration. -
The Armaments Congress ends
It would lead to three agreements, including the Five Power Disarmament Treaty, between the major world powers and the United States, to limit naval construction, outlaw poison gas, restrict submarine attacks on merchant fleets and respect China's sovereignty. -
Calvin Coolidge Presidency
Calvin Coolidge wins his first election as President, retaining the White House for the Republican Party over his Democratic foe, John W. Davis, and Progressive Party candidate Robert M. La Follette. The Electoral margin was 382 to 136 (Davis) to 13 (La Follette). -
TV was successfully invented
First success in the invention of television occurs by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth. The complete electronic television system would be patented three years later on August 26, 1930. -
Herbert hoover as president
Herbert Hoover wins election as President of the United States with an Electoral College victory, 444 to 87 over Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith, the Catholic governor of New York. -
Construction of the Hoover Dam
The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder, later named Hoover Dam. -
Martin Luther King was born
Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia. -
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Great Depression in the U.S.
Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history. -
Manchuria Railroad Explosion
The Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway was located near the city Shenyang in China. In 1931, part of the railroad exploded in what the Japanese claimed was an attack by anti-Japanese dissidents. It was later determined that the explosion was actually planned by the Japanese. The Japanese used the explosion as an excuse to invade China and take control of the Manchuria province. This incident began the Asian section of World War II. -
Franklin d roosevelt as president
Democratic challenger Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent President Hoover in the presidential election for his first of an unprecedented four terms. The landslide victory, 472 Electoral College votes to 59 for Hoover began the era of FDR that would lead the nation through the vestiges of the Great Depression and the ravages of World War II. -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the first time.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the first time. His speech with its hallmark phrase, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself," begins to rally the public and Congress to deal with great depression issues. His subsequent Fireside Chats, that began eight days later, would continue his addresses with the American public. -
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission was established
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is established with the signing of the Securities Exchange Act into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
The United States pulls its troops from Haiti.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected as the second president
Franklin D. Roosevelt overwhelms his Republican challenger, Alfred Landon, for a second presidential term. His Electoral College margin, 523 to 8, and 62% of the popular vote insured Roosevelt carte blanche in his goals of the New Deal. -
The creation of the Manhattan Project
Albert Einstein alerts Franklin D. Roosevelt to an A-bomb opportunity, which led to the creation of the Manhattan Project. -
Germany blitzed Poland and the Second World War began
The United States declares its neutrality in the European war after Germany invaded Poland, effectively beginning World War II after a year of European attempts to appease Hitler and the aims of expansionist Nazi Germany. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes three-term president
President Franklin D. Roosevelt continues his dominance of presidential politics with a 449 to 82 Electoral College victory over Republican candidate Wendell Wilkie, winning his third presidential election. Roosevelt becomes the first man to hold office for three terms. -
Issue the Atlantic Charter
An eight point declaration of principles called the Atlantic Charter is issued by President Roosevelt and Great Britain Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
