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Prohibition
The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act, is passed, by the congress, which makes liquor illegal to be sold and bought. It was passed to stop alcoholism and weaken the political opposition. -
Secret Brewery
Lawyer George Remus moves to Cincinnati to set up a drug company to gain legal access to bonded liquor. -
King of the Bootleggers
Roy Olmsted becomes "King of the Puget Sound Bootleggers. He began as a police officer, which he learned of his bootlegger skills from the arrests he made from alcohol businesses, after he was fired he became a full time bootlegger, becoming one of the employers in Puget. -
"Rum Running"
William McCoy pioneers the "rum running" trade by sailing a schooner loaded 1500 cases of liquor from Nassau in the the Bahamas to Savannah, Georgia -
Moonshine
Frank Allen Mather signs on with the Treasury Department to scour Nelson County, Kentucky for signs of moonshiners. -
Boston Herald
The Boston Herald offers $200 to the reader who comes up with a new word for someone flagrantly ignores the edict and drinks illegal liquor. -
Beer Wars
Al Capone is blamed for murder of prosecutor, Billy McSwiggin. As McSwiggin was leaving an illegal bar a car drove past him and his friends and shot all four of them with a machine. It is said he was killed for no reason, that he was an innocent bystander in the way and a gang rivalry. -
Stock Market Crash
Stock market crashes, starting on October 24th to the 29th. Crashes Happen in the New York Stock Exchange, leading to London's Stock Exchange. -
Valentine's Day Massacre
The devastating event killed a total of seven gang member's in the Chicago area. They were lined up against a wall and shot by four unknown males dressed as police officers. -
The Great depression begins
It was mainly in North America, and it was a time period of extremly low wages and unemployment. The Stock Market crash was the beginning of the Great Depression. Billions of dollars were lost. -
Bank Crash
In 1930 alone, 744 banks crashed throughout America and Europe. -
Food Riot
Food was at an all time low, because the farmers weren't getting paid. People, then started fights for more food. -
The First Drought Hits
Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. -
Economy All Time Low
The economy had been at an all time low in August, 1929, but after the stock market crash, it officially hit rock bottom on March 1932. -
Roosevelt Becomes President
Franklin.D. Roosevelt took office in 1933. He makes multiple changes, which included closing the banks to prevent more devastation. -
Roosevelt Becomes President
When Franklin Roosevelt takes office, the country is in desperate straits. He will take quick steps to declare a four-day bank holiday, during which time Congress will come up with the Emergency Banking Act of 1933, which stabilizes the banking industry and restores people’s faith in the banking system by putting the federal government behind it. -
The Civilian Conservation Corps...
The Civilian Conservation Corps opens the first soil erosion control camp in Clayton County, Alabama. By September there will be 161 soil erosion camps. -
Great Dust Storm Spreads
Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely. -
Black Sunday
The worst dust storm made farmers have to learn different ways to farm. -
Roosevelt signs the Taylor Grazing Act
Roosevelt signs the Taylor Grazing Act, which allows him to take up to 140 million acres of federally-owned land out of the public domain and establish grazing districts that will be carefully monitored. One of many New Deal efforts to heal the damage done to the land by overuse, the program is able to arrest the deterioration but cannot undo the damage that has already been done. -
The DRS formed
The federal government forms a Drought Relief Service to coordinate relief activities. The DRS buys cattle in counties that are designated emergency areas, for $14 to $20 a head. Those unfit for human consumption – more than 50 percent at the beginning of the program – are destroyed. The remaining cattle are given to the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation to be used in food distribution to families nationwide. -
Soil Conservation
The government works hard to try to support farmers, so people can eat again. Farms are the beginning to rebuilding America -
Black Sunday
Black Sunday. The worst “black blizzard” of the Dust Bowl occurs, causing extensive damage. -
Hottest Summer
The temperatures rise while people are trying to survive the dust storms, 20 states experience 110 degrees, four of them went to 120 degrees. -
L.A.P.D. Chief Davis looks for undesirables
Los Angeles Police Chief James E. Davis sends 125 policemen to patrol the borders of Arizona and Oregon to keep “undesirables” out. As a result, the American Civil Liberties Union sues the city. -
National Debt
As we lose more money Franklin.D.Roosevelt begins his second term, tries to reduce the national debt, while at the time tries to recover the economy. -
FDR’s Shelterbelt Project begins
The project calls for large-scale planting of trees across the Great Plains, stretching in a 100-mile wide zone from Canada to northern Texas, to protect the land from erosion. Native trees, such as red cedar and green ash, are planted along fence rows separating properties, and farmers and workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps are paid to plant and cultivate them. -
Drought Continues
The extensive work re-plowing the land into furrows, planting trees in shelter belts, and other conservation methods has resulted in a 65 percent reduction in the amount of soil blowing. However, the drought continues. -
The end of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl
As the end of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl grows near, the country is still in debt, but still continue to rebuild the economy. -
Japanese surrender aftermath
After the Japanese surrender ends World War II, Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Ming forms a provisional government and declares his country's independence from all colonial powers. -
American Forces deployed at Korea
As the Cold War escalates, American forces are deployed to Korea, and the United States also sends $15 million in aid, as well as some military advisers, to the French to assist in their war in Vietnam. The Communist governments of China and the Soviet Union likewise begin to arm the Vietminh. -
New President
John F. Kennedy wins the U.S election. He's the youngest president to be elected as president. -
J.F.K. elected President
John F. Kennedy is elected president. After taking office, Vice President Lyndon Johnson travels to Vietnam and affirms his support for Diem's increasingly autocratic government. Kennedy increases the number of American military advisers in Vietnam and forms the Green Berets, a Special Forces group trained to conduct counterinsurgency. -
Attack on Cuba
The U.S tries to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba. The code name from this operation was The Bay of Pigs invasion. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The world prepares for another world war as the United States and USSR are ready to launch nuclear attacks. -
James Meredith Enrollment
The Civil Rights act was passed, letting James Meredith legally enroll anywhere a Caucasian male could. James enrolled at the University of Mississippi. This created riots, five thousand troops were sent by President Kennedy. The riots resulted in two deaths and hundreds injured. -
The start of Walmart
Sam Walton opens the first Walmart store in Arkansas. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
More than two hundred thousand people join together to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech in Washington, to protest racial inequality. -
Assassinated
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while riding next to his wife during the presidential motorcade, by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was against Kennedy's leadership. -
Civil Rights Act
The civil rights act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination, and was signed by Lyndon B. Johnson. -
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Selma to Montgomery marches
A protest starting at Selma, Alabama to the state capital Selma. To protest African Americans desire to exercise their constitutional right to vote, and in defiance of segregationists. -
W. Sewell organizes a well-attended antiwar teach-in
Sociology department head William Sewell organizes a well-attended antiwar teach-in on the University of Wisconsin at Madison campus, reflecting his belief that the U.S. doesn't have "any business over there" in Vietnam. First attempted at the University of Michigan just a week earlier, the teach-in becomes a popular form of protest. -
Voting Rights Act
The Act prohibits against racial discrimination in voting. The law was signed by Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement. -
"Search-and-Destroy" missions
As antiwar protests grow, Johnson and American military leaders increase reliance on "search-and-destroy" missions in an effort to draw the Viet Cong into battles and inflict heavy casualties. But the Viet Cong prove difficult to pin down. By year's end, 6,000 American soldiers have died. -
25th Amendment
The 25th Amendment is the U.S constitution is ratified. -
Race Riot
The race riots in Detroit and Newark were the worst riots in U.S history. Federal troops were called out to the riots to restore order. -
Anti-War Protest in Washington
An enormous antiwar protest draws more than 100,000 people to Washington, including a contingent from the University of Wisconsin. In Madison, two thousand students march to the Wisconsin State capital in what they term a "funeral procession" to protest police brutality. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, a memorial service is held at the Black Lions base camp in Lai Khe for the soldiers lost in the October 17 ambush. By early the next year, the American death toll will reach 25,000. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
Martin Luther king Jr., the civil rights president was assassinated, by James Earl Ray, a man against Martin King Jr.'s declarations of Racial equality. -
Paris Peace Talks
Peace Talks aimed at ending the war begin in Paris. -
To the moon
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men from the United States to land on the moon during NASA's Apollo 11 mission. -
Nixon Begins a Secret Bombing
New president Richard Nixon begins a secret bombing of Viet Cong strongholds in Cambodia and also initiates a " Vietnamization" of the war, a policy which will lead to a gradual withdrawal of American military forces. -
Largest Anti-War Protest in American History
An estimated two million protesters gather across the U.S. for the largest antiwar march in U.S. history. -
Cease-Fire In Paris
A cease-fire agreement is reached in Paris. The last American combat troops leave Vietnam; roughly 58,000 have died in the course of the war. Former student protester Paul Soglin is elected mayor of Madison.