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Nineteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified, granting women the right to vote -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. -
Immigration Quota
Congress passes immigration restrictions, for the first time creating a quota for European immigration to the United States. Targeted at "undesirable" immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, the act sharply curtails the quota for those areas while retaining a generous allowance for migrants from Northern and Western Europe. -
Tariffs Up
Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, sharply raising tariff duties to protect the American market for American manufactures. The tariff boosts the domestic economy of the Roaring Twenties, but it also worsens the crisis for struggling European economies like Germany's, helping to enable Adolf Hitler's rise to power there on a platform of economic grievance. -
Scopes Trail
Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching evolution, in violation of new state law banning the teaching of Darwin. The ensuing "Scopes Monkey Trial," pitting defense attorney Clarence Darrow against three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan in a proxy debate of modernity versus fundamentalism, captivates the nation. Scopes is eventually found guilty. -
Invented first plane
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in plane. -
Hoover President
Herbert Hoover, running on a slogan of "A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage," is elected to the presidency, crushing Catholic Democrat Al Smith to maintain Republican dominance of the Oval Office. -
The Great Depression
Herbert Hoover president, Stock market crash turns into Great Depression. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was October 29, 1929, the day the New York Stock Exchange crashed. Lots of people wanted to get rich immediately, so they invested a lot of money in the stock market. But the market crashed and everyone lost everything, this day was called the ‘Black Tuesday’. This event played a big role in Canada’s economic downturn -
Chicago Mob
In the "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre," the single bloodiest incident in a decade-long turf war between rival Chicago mobsters fighting to control the lucrative bootlegging trade, members of Al Capone's gang murder six followers of rival Bugs Moran. -
Five Cent Speech
Mackenzie King made a speech that the problem of Social Welfare was the responsibility of the provinces. He said that he will not give a "five cent piece" to anybody who lost their jobs in a province without a Liberal Government hence the name of the speech. This speech was one of the reasons why the Liberals lost the elections to the Conservatives. Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett replaced Mackenzie King. -
Bonus Army March
During the great depression, World War I veterans sought an early payment Congress had promised them and marched along the Washington. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
Nazi party leader and future dictator rises to power -
On-to-Ottawa Trek
The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a long journey where thousands of people had unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps. The men lived and worked in these camps at a rate of twenty cents per day before walking out on strike in April 1935. -
Social Security
Social Security Act is passed through the Constitution. -
New Deal
The economic downturn let lots of Canadian felt angry and unhappy about the government, so the Prime Minister R.B made a plan for Canadians. He his plan to establish unemployment & social insurance, set minimum wages, limit the hours of work, guarantee the fair treatment of employees, & control prices. He made everyone have fair chances. -
World War II
The Second World War that lasted from 1939 to 1945 -
Cold War
Tension between the United States and Soviet Union after the Second World War. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor during World War II which led to the United States entry into the War -
The NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established. -
Korean War
A war between South and North Korea that began when North Korea invaded South Korea. It began in 1950 and ended in 1953 -
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court case that declared state laws establishing separate public schools based on race of students was unconstitutional. -
March on Washington
A civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr which included his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Banned segregation in public accommodations and gave federal government the ability to compel state and local school boards to desegregate. -
Watergate Scandal
A major political scandal in the US followed by a break in the Democratic National Committee headquarters and President Nixon's administration attempted a cover. -
9/11
A terrorist attack led by al-Qaeda. The group hijacked two planes and flown them into the towers of the World Trade Center.
