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The Spanish flu was the pandemic of the 1920s. It claimed roughly 675,000 lives.
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Congress passed the 19th amendment, officially giving the right to vote to all women.
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The Roaring Twenties was the time period before the great depression where the wealth in the United States doubled.
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The Great Depression was the time period where the entire U.S. economy collapsed. Everyone was struggling to survive until America entered WWII.
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Franklin Roosevelt, a democrat, won the U.S. election in 1932. He holds the record of four presidential elections. Roosevelt brought massive changes to the US, such as: programs to provide relief to the unemployed and farmers while seeking economic recovery with the National Recovery Administration and other programs, and also instituted major regulatory reforms related to finance, communications, and labor, and presided over the end of Prohibition.
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After Japan had bombed pearl harbor, the United States officially entered the war. This brought major social change by allowing people to get out of the desperate situation they were in, along with the political change of fighting Germany.
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After World War II, the State's had an economic boom. This was due to american consumers ready to spend money, and the fact that the factories started a huge increase in production because of peace-time.
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The seperate schools that colored children and white's had finally ended, making it so both parties went to the same academy's.
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Pop music was influenced by rock and roll, and was finally invented in the mid-1950s as an alternative to the other forms of music available.
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In 1974, a small firm named MITS invented the PC. This was revolutionary for the time, and changed our world forever. This gave access to the internet, an interconnected string of websites and information.
