Name Date Period Period 7 (1890-1945) Timeline of Major Events Part 2: 1921-1945 (Roaring 20s through WWII) Key Concepts: The transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society brought about significant economic, political, diplomatic, social, environmental, and cultural changes 7.1: Growth expanded opportunity, while economic instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society and its economic system. 7.2: Innovations in communications and technology contributed to the growth of mass culture, while significant changes occurred in internal and international migration patterns. 7.3: Participation in a series of global conflicts propelled the United States into a position of international power while renewing domestic debates over the nation s proper role in the world. President Description/Significance: (Make sure to include WHY the event is significant as well as the factual information) Election of 1920 Republicans Democrats Socialists Emergency Quota Act of 1921 Sacco and Venzetti (1921-1927) Warren G. Harding Republican (1921-1923) Bureau of the Budget (1921) Washington Conference (1921) Five-Power Treaty Four-Power Treaty Nine-Power Treaty
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922 Teapot Dome Scandal (1921-1924) Extra Notes/Info on Warren G. Harding: Election of 1924 Republicans Democrats Progressives National Origins Act of 1924 Dawes Plan (1924) Scopes Monkey Trial (1925) Calvin Coolidge Republican (1923-1929) Marcus Garvey United Negro Improvement Association (1916) Opposition Legacy Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) Extra Notes/Info on Calvin Coolidge:
Election of 1928 Republicans Democrats The Stock Market Crash (October 1929) Background Speculation Buying on margin Black Thursday (October 24, 1929) Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929) Lowest Point (July 8, 1932) Herbert Hoover Republican (1929-1933) Federal Farm Board (1929) Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930) Dust Bowl (1930-1936) Causes Effects Hoovervilles (1930s)
Debt Moratorium (1931) Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932) Bonus March (1932) Extra Notes/Info on Herbert Hoover: Election of 1932 Republicans Democrats FDR s Message of Hope The Three R s Brain Trust Presidential Advisors Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrat (1933-1945) 1 st Term: 1933-37 Fireside Chats Eleanor Roosevelt 20 th Amendment (1933) The First Hundred Days (March 9 June 16, 1933) Emergency Banking Relief Act (March 9, 1933) REFORM Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) (March 31, 1933) RELIEF
Abandonment of the Gold Standard (April 19, 1933) REFORM Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) (May 12, 1933) RELIEF Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) (May 18, 1933) REFORM Home Owners Loan Act (HOLA) (June 13, 1933) REFORM Glass-Steagall Act (June 16, 1933) REFORM Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) (June 16, 1933) RELIEF Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) (June 16, 1933) REFORM Farm Credit Administration (FCA) (June 16, 1933) REFORM First New Deal (1933-1934) Civil Works Administration (CWA) (November 8, 1933) Twenty-first Amendment (December 5, 1933) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) (1934) Indian Reorganization Act or Wheeler-Howard Act (June 18, 1934) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (June 6, 1934) National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) (July 5, 1935) Second New Deal (1935-1938) Wagner Act (February 1935)
Soil Conservation Service (April 27, 1935) Resettlement Administration (RA) (May 1, 1935) Works Progress Administration (WPA) (May 6, 1935) National Youth Administration (NYA) Federal One Rural Electrification Administration (REA) (1935) Social Security Act (August 14, 1935) Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) Opposition to the New Deal Liberals Conservatives Demagogues Father Charles E. Coughlin Dr. Francis E. Townsend Huey Long Supreme Court Schechter Poultry Corp v. United States (1935) United States v. Butler (1936)
Justice Reorganization Bill (1937) Aftermath Committee/Congress of Industrial Organizations (1935) Election of 1936 Republicans Democrats United Auto Workers Union (1937) End of the New Deal Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrat (1933-1945) 2 nd Term: 1937-41 Roosevelt Recession (1937-1938) Hatch Act (1939) Foreign aggression The Grapes of Wrath (1939) Election of 1940 Republicans Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrat (1933-1945) 3 rd Term: 1941-45 & 4 th Term: 1945 Fair Employment Practice Committee (1941) World War II (1941-1945) SEE ATTCHED PACKET
Congress of Racial Equality (1942) Double V Slogan (1943) Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act of 1943 Smith v. Allwright (1944) Bracero Program Harry S. Truman Democrat (1945-1953) Extra Notes/Info on Franklin D. Roosevelt: Zoot Suit Riots (1943) Terms to Know Standard of living Capital Assembly line Credit Consumerism Stock market crash Consumer culture Disarmament Art deco Reparations Voluntarism Fascism Speculation Appeasement Buying on margin Isolationism Overproduction Embargo Underconsumption
1920s Society Consumer Society Welfare Capitalism Mass Production Installment Plans Chain Stores Impact of the Automobile Social Issues 1 st Red Scare Quota Laws Nativism Sacco and Vanzetti Racism
Nineteenth Amendment & Voting Women in the Home Employment Changes in Morals Role of Women Contraceptives Flappers Divorce Education Culture Wars Eighteenth Amendment/Volstead Act Prohibition Bootleggers Speakeasies Fundamentalists Modernists Religion Revivalists Scopes Monkey Trial
Song and Dance Jazz Jazz Age Dance Clubs Radio Cinema Hero Worship Literature Harlem, New York City Poets Harlem Renaissance Musicians (Jazz) Marcus Garvey
GREAT DEPRESSION CAUSES EFFECTS Political Political Economic Economic Social Social