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Steel Strike Ends
The Great Steel Strike of 1919 ends with capitulation by the steelworkers. -
Senate Rejects League
The Senate refuses to ratify the Versailles Treaty or authorize United States participation in the League of Nations. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment is ratified, granting women the right to vote -
Sacco- Vanzetti Trial
The Sacco-Vanzetti trial begins. Immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will eventually be convicted of murder and executed. -
Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium, the "House that Ruth Built," is constructed in the Bronx, New York. -
Change
During Roosevelt's first 100 days in office his administration passed legislation that aimed to stabilize industrial and agricultural production, create jobs and stimulate recovery. In addition, Roosevelt sought to reform the financial system, creating the federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC) to protect depositors accounts and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate the stock market -
Harding Dies
President Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascends to presidency. -
Ford Motor Company
The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion -
Klansmen March
40,000 Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue -
Start of the Great depression
It began after the stock market crash, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors -
Black Thursday
A nervous investors began selling overpriced shares en masse the stock market crash that some had feared happened at last. a record 12.9 million shares were traded that day, known as Black Thursday -
desperate banks
In the fall of 1930 the first of four waves of banking panics began, as large numbers of investors lost confidence in the solvency of their banks and demanded deposits in cash forcing banks to liquidate loans in order to supplement their sufficient cash reserves on hard -
Franklin D Roosevelt's election
In 1932, however with the country mired in the depths of the Great Depression and some 15 million people (more than 20 percent of the U.S. Population at the time) unemployed. Democrat Franklin D roosevelt won an overwhelming victory in the presidential election -
unemployment rate
By 1933 when the great depression reached its lowest point some 15 million americans were unemployed and nearly half the country's banks had failed -
Famous Quote
By inauguration day evry US state had ordered all remaining banks to close at the end of the fourth wave of banking panics and the US treasury didnt have enough cash to pay all government workers. Nonetheless, FDR projected a calm energy and optimism famously declaring that " the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -
Supreme Leader
After becoming Reich Chancellor in 1933, Hitler swiftly consolidated power, anointing himself Fuhrer (supreme leader) in 1934 Obsessed with the idea of the superiority of the "pure" German race. -
Troops Occupy Austria
After signing alliances with italy and Japan against the soviet Union, Hitler sent troops to occupy Austria in 1938 and the following year annexed Czechoslovakia -
Germany-Soviet nonaggression pact
In late August 1939, Hitler and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin signed the German- Soviet Nonaggression Pact which incited a frenzy of worry in London and Paris Hitler had long planned an invasion of Poland a nation to which Great Britain and France had guaranteed Military support if it was attacked by Germany -
Start of World War II
Sparked by Adolf Hitler's invasion of 1939, the war would drag on for six deadly years until the final allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945 -
War Break out
Depression-era hardships had fueled the rise of extremist political movements in various European countries, most notably that of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime in Germany. German aggression led war to breakout in Europe in 1939 and the WPA turned its attention to strengthening the military infrastructure of the United States even as the country maintained as neutrality -
Invasion of Norway
On April 9, 1940 Germany simultaneously invaded Norway and occupied Denmark and the war began in earnest -
Entry to Paris
German forces entered Paris . -
Crucial Aid
With Britain's defensive resources pushed to the limit, Prime Minister Winston Churchill began receiving crucial aid from the U.S. under the Lend-Lease Act, passed by Congress in early 1941 -
Ordered Invasion
Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation Barbarossa. -
Pearl Harbor
360 japanese aircraft attacked the major U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, taking the Americans completely by surprise and claiming the lives of more than 2,300 troops.