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The Novel written by F Scott Fitzgerald was published during the height of the roaring 20s.
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Herbert hoover comes the 31st president of the United States.
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The Dow-Jones looses points, and accumulated to Black Monday and Black Tuesday. This lead to the complete collapse of the stock market, and kick started an economic depression.
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Gangster Al Capone was sent to prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion.
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A law passed by the German government to give emergency powers to the German chancellor. Hitler was appointed chancellor a couple months prior.
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The United States passed a law no longer maintaining the value of the US dollar to the value of gold.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president, and would remain there for the rest of his life.
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The second world war was between The Axis Powers, (Germany, Italy, Japan, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania) and the Allies (United States, British Empire, France, Soviet Union, China) Started arguably with Germany invading Poland, but Japan was already at war by that point.
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The United States enters the second world war after the bombing of pearl harbor by the Japanese.