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| 1920 |
First commercial radio broadcast Warren Harding elected president 19th Amendment grants women's suffrage |
| 1921 |
Congress enacts immigration quotas Washington Naval Conference |
| 1922 |
Sinclair Lewis writes Babbitt |
| 1923 |
Harding dies, succeeded by Coolidge Teapot Dome scandal unfolds |
| 1925 | Scopes Tennessee Evolution trial |
| 1927 |
Lindbergh's solo flight across Atlantic Sacco and Vanzetti executed first talking film The Jazz Singer produced Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs |
| 1928 | Hoover elected president |
| 1929 | Stock Market Crash |
| 1930 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff |
| 1931 | Japan invades Manchuria |
| 1932 |
Glass-Steagall Banking Act Reconstruction Finance Corporation Bonus Army marches on Washington Franklin Roosevelt defeats Hoover for president |
| 1933 |
100 Days legislation Prohibition repealed bank holiday proclaimed Dr. Townsend movement begins |
| 1934 | Securities and Exchange Commission established |
| 1935 |
Schecter Poultry v. U.S. invalidates National Recovery Administration Huey Long organizes Share Our Wealth Society Father Coughlin creates National Union for Social Justice Huey Long assassinated First Neutrality Act passed |
| 1936 |
Butler v. U.S. invalidates Agricultural Adjustment Administration United Auto Workers begin sit-down strikes |
| 1937 |
Roosevelt announces court-packing plan Roosevelt's quarantine speech |
| 1938 | Appeasement at Munich by Chamberlin |
| 1939 |
Fall of Czechoslovakia Austria annexed by Germany Germany invades Poland |
Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).
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