Events in the United States from 1920s through 2000s

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  • Eighteenth Amendment

    Eighteenth Amendment

    Prohibiting the sale of alcohol anywhere in the U.S.
  • Nineteenth Amendment

    Nineteenth Amendment

    Ratification, granting women the right to vote.
  • Scopes Trial Ban

    Scopes Trial Ban

    Tennessee school teacher John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution .
  • The Jazz Singer

    The Jazz Singer

    Al Jolson's, The Jazz Singer, the first talking motion pictures premieres, marketing the beginning of the end of the silent film era.
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    Herbert Hoover becomes president. Stock Market Crash turns into Great Depression.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Policy

    Franklin D. Roosevelt Policy

    Created the new deal with four major achievements: Economic Recovery, Job Creation, Investment in Pubic Works, and Civil Uplift.
  • 21st Amendment

    21st Amendment

    Repeal of prohibition; alcohol becomes legal again.
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl

    An area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move.
  • Social Security Act

    Social Security Act

    A law enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people.
  • The attack on Pearl Harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor caused about 2400 dead, almost 200 planes destroyed and 8 battleships destroyed or damaged
  • G.I Bill of Rights

    G.I Bill of Rights

    A law created that provided a range of benefits to returning Veterans from war.
  • Truman Presidency

    Truman Presidency

    Enters office after death of FDR; ends The Great Depression.
  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson

    Becomes first African American that breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier.
  • The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

    The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

    An organization formed in Washington, D.C., comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
  • Foreign Policy

    Foreign Policy

    One of Eisenhower’s main goals of foreign policy was to contain communism.  A great fear was that of the domino effect,  the belief that if one country fell to communism, so would another and another and so on.
  • Presidency of John F. Kennedy

    Presidency of John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963), the youngest man elected to the office. On November 22, 1963, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, becoming also the youngest President to die.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
  • Kent State University Shooting

    Kent State University Shooting

    Four students from Kent State University in Ohio were killed and nine wounded by National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War spread in Cambodia.
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied by the United States or by any State on account of age.
  • Defense of Marriage Act

    Defense of Marriage Act

    Allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states. At this time NO states allowed same-sex marriages.
  • Obergefell v. Hodges Case

    Obergefell v. Hodges Case

    The landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court held in a 5-4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same sex-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.