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18th Amendment is Passed
Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by making the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol illegal -
19th Amendment
Granted women the right to vote -
Baseball World Series
Baseball World Series is broadcasted for the first time. The New York Giants beat The New York Yankees 5 games to 3 -
Sacco and Vanzetti
Italian immigrant radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are convicted of murder and executed -
German Reparations
Germany suffers hyperinflation due to reparation payments imposed by the Treaty of Versailles -
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby -
Babe Ruth
Was the first man to hit 60 home runs in one season playing for the New York Yankees -
The Jazz Singer
Al Jolson's The Jazz singer, becomes the first talking motion picture, marking the beginning of the end to the silent film era -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
The murder of 7 mob associates as a part of a Prohibition-era conflict between 2 powerful criminal gangs in Chicago -
Black Tuesday
Stock Market Crash -
Hitler invades the Soviet Union
Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union under the codename operation "Barbarossa" -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese surprise the United States by bombing Pearl Harbor -
Roosevelt creates the War Production Board to coordinate mobilization
Roosevelt started the War Production Board to supervise war production during the war -
Japanese Americans are sent to relocation centers
All Japanese Americans that lived in highly populated areas were sent to relocation centers in fear that they were spies or would turn against us -
First Sit In
4 African American college students sat down at a whites only counter and refused to move causing an uproar in the South -
Birmingham to Anniston Freedom Riders
The first freedom riders consisted of 7 African Americans and 6 white people who boarded a bus going from Birmingham, AL to Anniston, AL. They were pushing for them to enfore the Alabama law that stated bus terminals could not be segregated. This lead to the people being beaten and the buses attacked. -
The March on Washington
Organized by A. Phillip Randolph to march for jobs, school intergration,
