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The First Transcontinental Airmail Service in the U.S.
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Even though magazines and newspapers reached big audiences, the radio became the most powerful communications medium in the 1920's.
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Charles Lindbergh establishes a record of 33 hours 29 minutes in his 3,614-mile nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
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On November 6th, 1928, Hebert Hoover was elected the 31st President of the United States.
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On October 24th 1929, the Stock Market crashed and began The Great Depression.
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On March 12 1930, Mohandas K. Gandhi leads a peaceful demonstration to not purchase British salt. It became known as The Salt March.
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About 8 million Americans are unemployed in 1931.
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On November 6th 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes the 32nd President of The United States.
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More than 13 million Americans are unemployed.
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On January 30th 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party come to power in Germany.
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President Roosevelt passes the Social Security Act, which provides assistance to people with a low or no income
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The German Air Force roared over Poland, rainings bombs on military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities. German tanks went across the Polish countryside. And World War II had begun.
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President Roosevelt becomes the first and only President to get elected more than twice.
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On December 7, 1941, over 180 Japanese bombers attacked Pearl Harbor. And the U.S. entered World War II.
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World War II ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and on Nagaski on August 9, 1945.
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The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. After 28 years, the walls was finally demolished on November 9, 1989.
