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Herbert Hoover Takes Office
In the election of 1928 Herbert Hoover wins. In October of 1929, the Stock Market crashes and it's blamed entirely on Hoover. Herbert Hoover tried to change the way businesses managed themselves and even appointed people to run them. -
The Bonus Army
At Washington D.C., anywhere between 10,000 and 20,000 WWI veterans and their loved ones gathered to get their money from serving in the war. This money was promised to them by 1945, but times were hard and they needed it now. President Hoover sent in a 1,000 man army who gassed and killed many people to diffuse the situation. -
FDR Elected
In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran for president of the United States. He was a Democrat. He was a 2-term governor of New York, and a distant cousin of former President Theodore Roosevelt. He wanted to change things. -
RFC
Hoover made the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which was approved by Congress in January of 1932. It authorized up to $2 billion for emergency financing for banks, life insurance companies, railroads, and other large businesses. Many argued this didn't help the poor and that they needed direct relieft. -
Hitler Takes Power
The Great Depression in Germany had left 6 million Germans unemployed. Many turned to Hitler's private army to be a part of something. Most others looked to Hitler as their last hope. Hitler was appointed chancellor (prime minister). -
The New Deal
President Roosevelt selected a group of professors, lawyers, and journalists that came to be known as the "Brain Trust". He also began to formulate a set of policies for his new administration. The New Deal was designed to help the problems from the Great Depression. -
The Dust Bowl
In the early 1930s, a drought began in the Great Plains. Farmer, before the dust storms, had farmed all of the prairie grasses and little trees the Plains once held. This caused the soil to become free and livid. When heavy winds would come, huge sand storms (huge sand clouds) would come towards towns in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. -
Indian Reorganization Act
This act moved official policy away from assimilation and toward Native American autonomy. It also led the road to a change in federal policy. This act led to many others to make the American Indian part of the United States again. -
Father Coughlin attacks FDR, Jews
Charles Coughlin was a Roman atholic priest from a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. His broadcast radio sermons combined economic, political, and religious ideas. He turned against Roosevelt and began to talk horrible about him on the air. He also turned against Jews. He went from having 40 million supporters/listeners, down to almost half of that. People didn't agree with how he was dealing with his opinions. -
Neutrality Acts
The United States wanted to keep themselves out of war. In order to do that, Congress passed a series of Neutrality Acts. The first two acts forbid selling arms and loaning money nations at war. The third act extended the ban on arms sales and nations that were starting civil wars. -
Social Security Act
During the New Deal, the Social Security Act was passed. This act had three major parts: Retirees 65 years of age or older and their spouses got funds, half from the worker and half frmo the employer. Second part: If you were unemployed, you could get $15 to $18 dollars a week. And third, Families with dependent children and the disabled people were paid for by federal funds. -
Social Security
President Roosevelt made Social Security to help the needly americans. This gave money to disabled people, sick people, children who lost families, the elderly and millions of others. -
The Grapes of Wrath
This was a book written by John Steinbeck. It entailed all of the grief that farmers had. Many of their homes were owned by the government or were morrgaged. Many lost their farms and this book tells all about the horrid sights. Tractors just going straight through your house or lifting it off the ground. -
GM Sit-Down Strike
The GM Sit-down strike caused many people to have no work. They would stay on the work place, but do no work. Many people called this a violation of property. -
Raping of Nanjing
In December of 1937, the "then" capital of China was Nanjing. Japan wanted contol over China. The Japanese forces did some extreme damage along the way: murdering civilians and soldiers, setting fire to homes, and beating Chinese civilians. These Japanese people were fuled by racial hatred because of propaganda.
