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Prohibition
In January of 1920 the eighteenth amendment went in to effect.
This amendment launched the prohibition era. During this era the manufacture, sale, transportation and posession of alcoholic were legally prohibited. -
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Roaring 20's
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American Birth Control League
Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 and fought for the legal rights of physiciancs to give birth control information to their parents. -
Explorers Opened Tomb of Tutankhamen
After explorers opened the dazzling tomb of of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen , consumers mobbed stores for pharaoh-inspired accesproes, jewelry, and furniture. -
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The Great Depression
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Banks Fail
More than 40% of the nation's banks fail. Spanned from 1930 - 1933. -
New President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president. -
The Dustbowl
A windstorm picked up millions of tons of dust the region that suffered the hardest hit was known as the "Dustbowl" this included parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. -
Germany takes Austria
German troops marched into Austria unopposed, a day later Germany announced its union with Austria was complete. -
The Munich Agreement is signed
Hitler invited French premier Edouard Daladier and British prime minister Neville Chamberlain to meet with him in Munich, when they arrived the Fuhrer told them that the Sudetenland would be his "last territorial demand." To avoid war, Daladier and Chamberlain chose to believe him, on September 30, 1938, the Munich Agreement was signed and the Sudetenland was turned belonged to Germany, without a single hsot being fired. -
The German offensive begins
Hitler was not finished expanding the Third Reich, as dawn came on March 15 1939, German troops flooded into what was left of Czechoslovakia, by nightfall Hitler was gloating "Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist." afterwards the German dictator turned his land hungry gaze towards Germany's easter neighbor, Poland. -
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Cold War Conflicts
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Truman Becomes President
On the 12th of April 1945 Harry S. Truman suddenly became the new president of the United States. -
The NATO Alliance
The Berlin blockade increased Western European fear of Soviet aggression. As a result ten Western European nations Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal joined with United States on April 4th 1949. -
North Korea Attacks South Korea
On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on South Korea. The conflict that followed became known as the Korean War. -
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The New Frontier and The Great Society
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First man in space.
On the 12th of April, 1961 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in outer space. -
First man to orbit the Earth.
On February 20th, 1962 John Glenn became the first american to orbit the Earth and the 5th man to go into space. -
The assassination of John F. Kennedy.
On November 22nd John F. Kennedy in Dallas Texas was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
