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 - 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 - 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 established 1943 - Detroit, Michigan 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 regain their independence from the U.S. 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 in baseball 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 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) formed 1949 - In China, Communists under Mao Zedong force Chiang Kai-shek's KMT government to retreat to Taiwan 1949 - Russia tests first atomic bomb 1949 - Department of War becomes Department of Defense 1949 - Germany divided into East and West 1949 - Truman attempts to continue FDR's legacy with his Fair Deal, but most acts don't pass 1949 - Dystopian future novel Nineteen Eighty-Four published by George Orwell 1900-1929 1930-1949 History of the United States 1950-1969