Curated atlas · Economics

The Roaring Twenties & Great Depression

From post-WWI euphoria through jazz, flappers, and speculation to the crash of 1929, the Dust Bowl, and the New Deal that rebuilt America.

24 years

1,248 blocks

21 events

6 stages

1 block = 1 week · 1 row = 52 weeks24y · 1,248 blocks

1918

1923

1928

1933

1938

Stages

Timeline ledger

Chronicle

21 events · 6 stages

Post-war adjustment

Jan 1, 1918 → Dec 28, 1920

World War I ends

Nov 5, 1918

Prohibition begins (18th Amendment)

Jan 13, 1920

Women win the vote (19th Amendment)

Aug 17, 1920

First commercial radio broadcast

Nov 2, 1920

The Roaring Twenties

8y 44w

Dec 28, 1920 → Oct 22, 1929

Tulsa Race Massacre

May 31, 1921

Tutankhamun's tomb discovered

Oct 31, 1922

Lindbergh's transatlantic flight

May 17, 1927

The Jazz Singer — first 'talkie' film

Oct 4, 1927

Penicillin discovered

Sep 25, 1928

Crash & early Depression

3y 18w

Oct 29, 1929 → Feb 28, 1933

Black Tuesday — stock market crashes

Oct 29, 1929

Smoot-Hawley Tariff signed

Jun 17, 1930

Dust Bowl years

9y 1w

Dec 30, 1930 → Dec 26, 1939

Empire State Building opens

Apr 28, 1931

Bonus Army marched on Washington

Jul 26, 1932

New Deal era

5y 44w

Feb 28, 1933 → Dec 27, 1938

FDR inaugurated

Feb 28, 1933

Prohibition repealed (21st Amendment)

Dec 5, 1933

Dust Bowl — Black Sunday

Apr 9, 1935

Social Security Act signed

Aug 13, 1935

Hindenburg disaster

May 4, 1937

War of the Worlds broadcast

Oct 25, 1938

Pre-war recovery

2y 49w

Dec 27, 1938 → Dec 2, 1941

Gone with the Wind premieres

Dec 12, 1939

Pearl Harbor — US enters WWII

Dec 2, 1941

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