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| 1927 |
| | | Gutzon Borglum begins the massive task of carving portraits of four US presidents in the rock face at Mount Rushmore | |
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| 1927 |
| | | President Coolidge issues a famously terse statement: 'I do not choose to run for President in 1928' | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Republican candidate Herbert Hoover wins the US presidential election with the slogan 'a chicken in every pot' | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act introduces a US protectionist policy | |
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| 1931 |
| | | President Hoover switches on the lights to inaugurate the world's new tallest skyscraper, the Empire State Building in New York | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Presidential candidate F.D. Roosevelt pledges himself at the Democratic convention to deliver 'a new deal for the American people' | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Troops using bayonets and tear gas drive out of Washington the Bonus Army, a group of protesting unemployed war veterans | |
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| 1932 |
| | | The incumbent president, Republican Herbert Hoover, suffers a heavy defeat by Democrat F.D. Roosevelt in the US election | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Prohibition is lifted in the USA when the Twenty-First Amendment repeals the Eighteenth, which has been in force for 13 years | |
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| 1933 |
| | | President Roosevelt gives the first of his many 'fireside chats' to the US nation on radio | |
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