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1920s and Prohibition
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The Circle
“The Vienna Circle” was the name adopted by a group of scientists and philosophers who met in Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s to develop a scientific philosophy rooted in the latest developments in the mathematical sciences. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of World War I (1917) and the onset of the Great Depression and lead up to World War II (the 1930s). -
Prohibition
An enactment to respond to the pre-existing social issues like domestic violence and child abandonment whose presumed cause was alcohol. -
Rum Row
William McCoy, a Florida skipper, pioneered the “rum-running” trade by sailing a schooner loaded with 1500 cases of liquor from Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas to Savannah and pocketing $15,000 in profits from just one trip. -
19th Amendment
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. -
Kentucky Stills
In 1922, Frank Mather signs on with treasury department to scour Nelson County, Kentucky for moonshiners, arresting them and dumping their whiskey into local streams. -
Scofflaw
In 1924, four years after Prohibition was first imposed, the Boston Herald offered $200 to the reader who came up with a brand-new word for someone who flagrantly ignored the edict and drank liquor that had been illegally made or illegally sold. Twenty-five thousand responded. Two readers split the prize. Each had come up with the same word – “scofflaw.” -
Beer Wars
In 1926 Alphonse 'Al' Capone is blamed for murder of prosecuter, Billy McSwiggin. -
Purple Gang Trial
n 1928, the Purple Gang of Detroit, Michigan, goes to trial for bootlegging and highjacking. -
Gang Violence
By 1929 gang violence is on the rise in nearly every city in the United States. -
The Great Depression
a severe, world -wide economic disintegration symbolized in the United States by the stock market crash on "Black Thursday" -
Stock market crash
On Black Monday, October 28, 1929, the Dow declined nearly 13 percent. On the following day, Black Tuesday, the market dropped nearly 12 percent. By mid-November, the Dow had lost almost half of its value. The slide continued through the summer -
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Great Depression and Dust Bowl
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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
The morning on Saint Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, 1929, seven men were murdered at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side. They were shot by four men using weapons that included two Thompson submachine guns. -
Dust Bowl
the name given to the drought-stricken southern plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a drought in the 1930s. -
Riots
Food riots broke out, workers marched on Detroit, and “foreign workers” were deported
No major legislation is passed addressing the Depression. -
21st Amendment
Amendment which ended the Prohibition of alcohol in the US. -
New President
He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first “hundred days,” he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority. -
National Labor Relations Act
Congress passes the National Labor Relations Act, better known as the Wagner Act, to support the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively with employers over working conditions, benefits, and wages. The act also bans certain unfair business practices. -
Social Security Act
The Work Projects Administration (WPA) was formed to employ up to 8.5 million people on public works projects across the country The Social Security Act was signed into law, financed through payroll taxes -
End of the Depression
The suffering American economy was given a boost when the fighting countries needed supplies and looked to America to make them.After Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, America entered the war. The U.S. enlisted more than 10 million men and women into the military. Since so many were fighting in the war, it was left for those left at home to work in the factories to make supplies for the war effort. -
Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. -
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1960s and public protests (Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam)
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New President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 till his assignation. -
Greensboro sit-in
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France tests its first A Bomb in the Sahara desert
France has completed a third nuclear test in the Sahara desert in Africa.
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Construction of the Berlin Wall begins
Borders were sealed off in hopes this measure would put an end to the mass exodus to Berlin. It also wanted to stabilize its power and document its sovereignty to the outside world. -
Cuban Missile Crisis begins
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world came to a nuclear war. It was a conflict between the Communists versus the Capitalists; mainly the United States versus the Soviet Union and Cuba. It all started when America sent a U-2 spy plane to check on Cuba. -
Congress enacts "equal pay for equal work" legislature for women.
President Kennedy created the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1961 to evaluate and make recommendations to improve the legal, social, civic, and economic status of American women -
JFK Assassination
John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. He was shot to death during a parade -
1960 Vietnam War
In late 1961 the U.S. sent personnel to train the South Vietnamese military to defend itself. Although U.S. troops were not to engage in combat, VC guerillas did not operate under the same restrictions, and they soon shot down four U.S. Army helicopters. -
First Man on the Moon
July 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. He stepped out of the Apollo 11 lunar module and onto the Moon's surface, in an area called the 'Sea of Tranquility.