1930-1950

  • 1929

    the stock market crashes
  • 1930

    The growing US population reaching 134 million
  • 1931

    By 1931 Al Capone was convicted of bootlegging and gambling making it prohibited but was ignored by the public making gangsters rich.
  • 1929-1932

    US income drops 40 percent
  • 1933

    in 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor
  • 1933

    FDR is elected president
  • 1934

    Number of farms peak in 1934
  • 1935

    Nuremberg Laws were set in place
  • 1938

    War of the Worlds begun
  • 1939

    UK declared war on Germany
  • 1940

    The Battle of Britain
  • 1940

    Leon Trotski assassination
  • 1940

    The Blitz
  • 1940

    Roosevelt's third term
  • 1941

    The bombing of Pearl Harbor
  • 1942

    Japanese Americans internment
  • 1944

    D-Day
  • 1945

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • 1945

    World War 2 has ended in Europe
  • 1946

    The Soviet Union develops their own atomic bomb
  • 1950

    Start of the baby boom
  • 1950

    Joseph McCarthy's red scare
  • 1950

    Korean War started
  • 1950

    President Truman approves Hydrogen bomb construction
  • 1952

    The Us and Japan sign a peace treaty
  • 1952

    Immigration and Naturalization Act
  • 1953

    DNA is discovered
  • 1955

    The reelection of Prime Minister Winston Churchill
  • 1955

    Vietnam War begins
  • 1957

    Russia launches Sputnik
  • 1959

    Antartica Treaty
  • 1959

    Alaska becomes a part of the U.S.A.