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Herbert Hoover takes Office
Hoover was a mining engineer from Iowa who had never run for public office. Hoover had one major advantage over his opponent, Alfred E. Smith; he could point to years of prosperity under Republican adminitrations since 1920. many Americans believed him when he declared, "We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty the ever before. It was an overwhelming victory for Hoover. The message was clear: most Americans were happy with Republican leadership -
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The Dust Bowl
When the drought and winds began in the early 1930s, little grass and few trees were left to hold the soil down. Wind scattered the topsoil, exposing sand and grit underneath. The dust traveled hundreds of miles. The region that was hit the hardest included parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. -
RFC
Hoover's most ambitious economic measure was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, approved by Congress in January 1932. It authorized up to $2 billion of emergency finances for many companies. -
The Bonus Army
A group of World War I veterans and their families who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of a bonus they had been promised for military service. -
FDR elected
Although the republicans renominated President hoover as their canidate, they recognized he had little chance of winning. The Democrats pinned their hopes on FDR, the two term governor of New York. He won an overwhelming victory, capturing nearly 23 million votes to Hoover's nearly 16 million. -
Hitlers Takes Poor
By mid 1932, the Nazis had become the strongest political party in Germany. In January of 1933, Hitler was appointed prime minister. -
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The New Deal
FDR was not idle during the period of waiting for him to take over. He worked with his team of carefully picked advisers. Roosevelt began to formulate a set of policies for his new administration. This program, designed to alliviate the problems of the great depression, became known ad the New deal. -
Indian Reorganization Act
In 1934, the Indian Reorganization Act moved offical policy away from assimilation and toward Native American autonomy. Its passage signaled a change in federal policy. It also wanted to stop the subsizing the Native Americans. -
Social Security Act
On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
Social Security
On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act became law above President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signature. The Social Security Act is one of the truly momentous legislative accomplishments in United States history. Enacted in the throes of the Great Depression, it was a sweeping bill that generated an array of programs to aid numerous groups of Americans. -
Neutrality Act of 1935
Imposed general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war and declared that American citizens traveling on warring ships traveled at their own risk. -
Father Coughlin attacks FDR
Every Sunday, Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from a suburb of Detroit, broadcast radio sermons that combined economic, political and religious ideas. Coughlin, originally a supporter of Roosevelt, turned against him. He favored a guarenteed annual income and the nationalization of banks. at the height of his popularity, Father Coughlin claimed a audience of as many as 40-45 million People, but his increasing anti jewish veiws eventually cost him support. -
Sit Down Strike
One of the main bargaining tactics of the labor movement in the 1930s was the sit-down strike. Instead of walking off their jobs, workers remained inside their plants, but they did not work. This pervented the factory owners from carrying on production with strikebreakers. -
Rape of Nanjing
The Rape of Nanjing was a period of wartime slaughtering committed by the Japanese forces in Chinese city of Nanjing in the late 1930s. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese were killed, often quite viciously. It started over controversy and argument between the Chinese and Japanese since the end of WWII. This incident was unfortunately only one of many slaughtering committed during the WWII. -
the grapes of wrath
Popular book in the late 1930s...
