U.S. History by Year, 1920-1939

Based on the clues, guess these American related things that happened in each year.

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Year	Hint	Answer
1939	John Wayne stars in Stagecoach, further popularizing this genre of film	Western
1938	This DC Comics superhero appears for the first time	Superman
1937	This German airship is engulfed in fire while trying to moor in Lakehurst, NJ	Hindenburg
1936	Construction of the Hoover Dam along this river is completed	Colorado River
1935	This senator and former governor is assassinated in Baton Rouge	Huey Long
1934	This couple's crime spree comes to a violent end in Louisiana	Bonnie and Clyde
1933	This Jewish physicist escapes from Nazi Germany to the United States	Albert Einstein
1932	The Winter Olympics take place in this New York village	Lake Placid
1931	This Chicago gangster is arrested on tax evasion charges	Al Capone
1930	Colonel Sanders opens the first of this restaurant chain in North Corbin	Kentucky Fried Chicken
1929	The Wall Street Crash marks the start of this period of economic shock	Great Depression
1928	This cartoon character appears in the short film "Steamboat Willie"	Mickey Mouse
1927	This aviator completes a non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic	Charles Lindbergh
1926	This iconic highway is established, connecting Santa Monica to Chicago	Route 66
1925	This author publishes "The Great Gatsby"	F. Scott Fitzgerald
1924	Calvin Coolidge appoints this man as the first director of the FBI	J. Edgar Hoover
1923	This famous hillside sign is put up in Los Angeles, originally it ended in "land"	Hollywood
1922	The Harding administration is rocked by this scandal involving bribery and oil	Teapot Dome Scandal
1921	Between 100 and 300 black people are massacred by a racist mob in this city	Tulsa
1920	The 19th Amendment guarantees the right for these people to vote	Women

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