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Timeline of United States history (1930-1949)
This section of the
Timeline of United States history
concerns
events from
1930
to
1949
.
1930s
1930
-
Hawley-Smoot tariff
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
-
Norris LaGuardia Anti Injunction Bill
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
-
Zangara[?]
kills
Anton Cermak
1933
-
Frances Perkins[?]
appointed
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
-
Securities and Exchange Commission
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
- Fair Labor Standard Act - sets minimum wage and hours
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
explodes
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
-
War of the Worlds
broadcast
1939
- Germany invades Poland; World War Two begins
1939
-
Cash and Carry
1940s
1940
-
Selective Service Act
1940
-
Alien Registration (Smith) Act
1941
-
Lend Lease
Act
1941
-
Pearl Harbor
attacked
1941
- US enters World War II
1941
-
Atlantic Charter
1941
- Japanese internment begins
1942
-
Office of Price Administration
1942
-
Cocoanut Grove
fire
1942
- Congress of Racial Equality
1942
- Revenue Act of 1942
1943
- Office of Price Administration
1943
- Detroit race riots
1943
-
Cairo Conference
1943
-
Casablanca Conference
1943
-
Tehran Conference[?]
1944
-
Bretton Woods Conference
1944
-
Dumbarton Oaks Conference
1944
-
GI Bill
of Rights
1944
- D-Day
1945
- Yalta Conference
1945
- Battle of Bulge
1945
- US takes Okinawa
1945
- US joins the United Nations
1945
- Nationwide strikes due to inflation; OPA disbanded
1945
-
atomic bomb
dropped on
Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki
1945
- Germany and Japan surrender, ending World War II
1945
- Potsdam Conference
1945
-
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
dies
1945
-
Harry S Truman
becomes President
1946
-
Winston Churchill
's
Iron Curtain
speech
1946
-
Benjamin Spock
's Child Care book published
1946
- Employment Act
1946
- Atomic Energy Act
1946
- President's commission on Civil Rights
1946
- Philippines get independence
1947
-
Presidential Succession Act
1947
-
Taft Hartley Act[?]
1947
-
National Security Act
1947
-
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
1947
- The Marshall Plan
1947
- Truman Doctrine
1947
- Federal Employee Loyalty Program
1947
- Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier
1948
-
Berlin Blockade
1948
- Election of 1948: Truman defeats Dewey
1948
- Truman desegregates armed forces
1948
- OAS: Alliance of North America and South America
1948
- Alger Hiss Case
1948
- Nuremberg trials
1949
- NATO formed
1949
- In China, Communists under
Mao Zedong
overwhelm Nationalists under
Chiang Kai-shek
1949
- Russia tests first atomic bomb
1949
- Department of Defense created
1949
- West and East Germany created
1949
- Truman attempts to continue FDR's legacy with his
Fair Deal[?]
, but most acts don't pass
1949
-
Nineteen Eighty-Four
published by
George Orwell
1900-1929
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