1930s
1931 - Empire State Building opens
1931 - Japan invades Manchuria
1932 - Stimson Doctrine
1932 - Norris-Laguardia Act
1932 - Bonus Army marches on DC
1932 - Amelia Earhart flies across Atlantic Ocean
1932 - Reconstruction Finance Corporation
1933 - 20th Amendment
1933 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes President
1933 - Agricultural Adjustment Act
1933 - Civil Works Administration
1933 - Civilian Conservation Corps
1933 - Farm Credit Administration
1933 - Home Owners Loan Corporation
1933 - Tennessee Valley Authority
1933 - Public Works Administration
1933 - National (Industrial) Recovery Act
1933 - Giuseppe Zangara kills Anton Cermak
1933 - Frances Perkins appointed United States Secretary of Labor
1933 - Montevideo Conference
1933 - 21st Amendment
1933 - Japan and Germany withdraw from League of Nations
1933 - Good Neighbor Policy announced
1934 - Glass-Steagal Act
1934 - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
1934 - Dust Bowl begins
1934 - Federal Housing Administration
1934 - Johnson Act
1934 - Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
1934 - Tydings-McDuffie Act
1934 - John Dillinger killed
1934 - Indian Reorganization Act
1934 - Share the Wealth society founded by Huey Long
1935 - Works Progress Administration
1935 - Neutrality Act
1935 - Motor Carrier Act
1935 - Social Security Act
1935 - Schechter Poultry Corporation v. US
1935 - National Labor Relations Act
1935 - Huey Long assassinated
1935 - Congress of Industrial Organizations formed
1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous founded
1935 - Revenue Act
1936 - Robinson Patman Act
1936 - Life Magazine begins
1936 - Butler v. US
1936 - London Conference on disarmament
1937 - Neutrality Acts
1937 - Hindenburg disaster
1937 - Japanese planes sink Panay in China
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge completed
1938 - Wheeler Lea Act
1938 - Fair Labor Standards Act
1939 - Hatch Act
1938 - Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds broadcast
1939 - Germany invades Poland; World War II begins
1939 - Cash and Carry
The USS Arizona, aflame and sinking, on December 7, 1941
[edit] 1940s
1940 - Selective Service Act
1940 - Alien Registration (Smith) Act
1941 - Lend Lease Act
1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 - U.S. enters World War II
1941 - Atlantic Charter
1941 - Japanese-American internment begins
1942 - Office of Price Administration
1942 - Cocoanut Grove fire
1942 - Congress of Racial Equality
1942 - Revenue Act of 1942
1942 - U.S.-controlled Commonwealth of the Philippines conquered by Japanese forces
1943 - Office of Price Administration established
1943 - Detroit, Michigan race riots
1943 - Cairo Conference
1943 - Casablanca Conference
1943 - Tehran Conference
1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference
1944 - GI Bill of Rights
1944 - D-Day
1944 - Bretton Woods Conference
1944 - Battle of the Bulge
1945 - Yalta Conference
1945 - U.S. takes Okinawa
1945 - U.S. joins the United Nations
1945 - Nationwide labor strikes due to inflation; OPA disbanded
1945 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies
1945 - Harry S. Truman becomes President
1945 - Germany surrenders
1945 - Potsdam Conference
1945 - atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945 - Japan surrenders, ending World War II
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