The Twenties & Thirties Important Dates AP US
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1920 (list 3) | Warren G. Harding elected president, prohibition takes effect, 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage) ratified |
| 1921 (list 2) | Quota system for immigration introduced, Washington Naval Conference |
| 1923 | Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge becomes president |
| 1925 (list 2) | Scopes' "monkey trial" in Tennessee, F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby |
| 1927 (list 3) | The Jazz Singer (first feature-length movie with sound) opens, Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic, Sacco & Vanzetti executed for murder |
| 1928 (list 2) | Kellogg-Briand peace pact and Herbert Hoover elected president |
| 1929 | Stock market crash; beginning of the Great Depression |
| 1930 (list 2) | London Naval Conference and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff |
| 1931 | Drought begins in Great Plains region |
| 1932 (list 3) | Reconstruction Finance Corporation established, "Bonus Army" march on Washington, D.C., Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president |
| 1933 (list 3) | New Deal begins: CCC, AAA, NRA, TVA, PWA, HOLC, FHA, FDIC, Prohibition ends with the 21st Amendment, Good Neighbor policy announced |
| 1935 (list 2) | Drought and dust storms in southern Plains begin to peak and Second New Deal: WPA, Social Security, Wagner Act |
| 1937 | FDR's "court-packing plan" fails |
| 1939 (list 2) | John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath and World War 2 begins in Europe; U.S. follows armed neutrality. |
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