Timeline 1921-1941 By emmadayton 1921 Warren G. Harding sworn in as President 1921 The Emergency Immigration Act is passed 1923 Teapot Dome Scandal 1923 Harding Dies Coolidge is sworn in Mar 21, 1925 Scoped Monkey Trial Dayton Tennessee May 21, 1927 Lindhberg achieves the first nonstop flight from NY to Paris Aug 23, 1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed 1928 FDR becomes the Governor of New York 1928 1928 Herbert Hoover elected President Oct 24, 1929 The Great Depression arrived- Stock Market plummets 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1931 Citizens Committee on Coordination of Unemployment Relief began working closely with federal officials 1931 The Scottsboro nine 1932 FDR becomes the President of the United States 1932 2,300 banks collapsed 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation Jul 1, 1932 The "New Deal" 1933 The Japanese withdraw from the League of Nations 1933 Hitler rises to power Mar 12, 1933 The First Fireside Chat 1935 Huey Long Assasinated 1935 The Second New Deal 1935 Social Security Act 1936 The Spanish Civil War breaks out 1937 The Court-Packing Schme 1937 The Roosevelt Recession Jul 7, 1937 The Assault of the Marco Polo Bridge 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act 1939 John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath published 1939 War explodes in Europe 1941 Executive Order Number 8802 Jun 22, 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 1942 British victory at El Alamein 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea 1943 Allies push Axis forces out of Africa 1943 Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin meet in Tehran 1945 Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin meet again in Yalta 1945 The world’s first nuclear device, Trinity was launched May 8, 1945 V-E Day Sep 2, 1945 Japanese Government signed their surrender-WW2 ends