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The Eighteenth Amendment is passed, banning the production and sale of alcohol.
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Guglielmo Marconi's radio become widely available to the American household.
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Warren Harding becomes the 28th President of The United States.
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Congress passes the Emegency Immigration Act, limiting the number of immigrants admitted into the country.
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Calvin Coolidge becomes the 29th President of The United States, following Harding' s death.
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Cecil B. DeMille produces the film, "The Ten Commandments".
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"Dixie to Broadway" becomes the first all-black production to have mainstream showings.
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The National Origins Act establishes quotas of immigrants that may be admitted into the United States.
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Alain Locke publishes "The New Negro", calling for the spirititual emancipation of the African-American race
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Black rights activist, Marcus Garvey, is arrested on fraud charges. He is pardoned to years later.
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The Scopes Trial, more famously known as the Monkey Trial, debates whether evolution can be taught in the classroom. Thus trial served to further the cause of both sides.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first transatlantic airplane flight, flying from New York to Paris
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Herbert Hoover is elected 30th President of The United States.
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Prices on the Stock Market plummet suddenly, causing widespread panic and foreshadowing worse things to come.
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The Stock Market begins its long fall into collapse, destroying the American Economy.
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President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, causing other nations to raise their own tariffs. This serves to cause a sharp decrease in international trade.
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A bomb destroy a Japanese owned railway, giving the Japanese an excuse to invade the Chinese province of Manchuria, starting Japan's advance on the Pacific. It was later found that the bomb had been panted by Japanese agents
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A series of severe droughts strike the United States, causing farmland to dry out and by swept away in giant clouds of dust. Without land to farm, many people immigrate to other states.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt become the 32nd President of the United States
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President Roosevelt's New Deal creates the Agricultural Adjustment Agency, aimed to help the farmers of America
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Japan withdraws from the United Nations after evidence shows that Japanese agents were responsible for the Manchuria Bombing.
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Adolf Hitler, leader of the German National Socialist (Nazi) party, is elected Chancellor of Germany
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The New Deal creates the National Recovery Administration, which regulates the practices and codes of businesses
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The National Labor Relations Act, or the Wagner Act, gives workers the right to unionize and work for better rights
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The Spanish Civil War takes place in Spain. Hitler and Italy's leader, Benito Mussolini, aid in the Fascist takeover of Spain.
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Japan launches a full invasion of China, starting on July 7, 1937. By the 13th of December, China is under Japanese control.
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The Fair Labor Standards Act sets the minimum wage at 25 cents and hour
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Germany annexes the nation of Austria
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John Steinbeck publishes his novel, "The Grapes of Wrath".
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Hitler takes over the nation of Czechoslovakia
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The United States cuts trade ties with Japan, after the latter continues to make war across the Pacific.
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20 years after the end of the First World War, the Second started. WWII saw much more blood shed and change in power than the first. World War Two allowed the United States to escape from the Great Depression and take its place as a world power.
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Hitler invades and conquers Poland, after signing a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin
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Hitler launches his invasion of Western Europe, taking Poland, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
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The Blitz bombing of Britain ends, with Britain surviving German attacks
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"A day that will live in infamy". Japanese bombers strike the American Naval base at Pearl Harbor, inciting America's entrance into the Second World War.
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Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa, breaking the non-aggression pact and invading the Soviet Union.
