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Fraser Marks 1930s timeline
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Herbert Hoover takes office
Hoover was the 31st president. He was a professional mining engineer and author. -
RFC
Reconstruction Finance Corporation. was an independent agency of the United States government chartered during the administration of Herbert Hoover in 1932. -
The bonus army
The self-named Bonus Expeditionary Force was an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers. Called the Bonus March by the news media, the Bonus Marchers were more popularly known as the Bonus Army. -
The New Deal
The New Deal is a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S congress. -
FDR Elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected 32nd president. Lead the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. -
Indian Reorganization act
This act was based upon the thought that tribes should be in existence for an indefinite period of time. -
Hitler takes power
His miscalculation led to disaster for Germany, for Europe, and for the world. -
Father Coughlin attacks FDR, Jews
A controversial Roman Catholic priest. -
The Dust Bowl
a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent erosion. -
Social Security
Social Security is a social insurance program that is funded through dedicated payroll taxes. -
Social Security Act
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GM sit-down strike
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Rape of Nanjing
The period of wartime atrocities committed by Japanese forces in the Chinese city of Nanjing in the late 1930s, and most specifically to six weeks at the end of 1937 and beginning of 1938 in which hundreds of thousands of Chinese were killed, often quite brutally. -
The Grapes of Wrath
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Neutrality Acts
