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Herbert Hoover takes office
Hoover takes office in 1929 as the 31st presidnet. 8 months after he was elected the stock markets dropped. -
RFC
The RFC was also known as the Reconstruction Finance Corperation. This was an agency that gave $2 billion in aid to state and local governments. It also made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses. -
The Bonus Army
The bonus army is a group of army veterans. A group of 43,000 marchers -including the veterans- stormed Washington D.C. in protest. -
FDR elected
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected in 1932 as the 32nd president of the United States. He was also the only President in history to be elected to 3rd and 4th terms. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was introduced in the 1930s by Roosevelt. It was a set of policies used to promote the recovery of the U.S. economy. -
Indian Reorganization Act
The Indian Reorganization Act was also called the Wheeler-Howard Act, it secured certain rights to Native Americans. The Native Americans were returned to a self-government, and were allowed management of their own land. -
Hitler takes power
Adolf Hitler took power after President of Germany, Paul Von Hindenburg, died. After the people letting him take the power he declared himself as the dictator of Germany. -
Father Coughlin attacks FDR, Jew
Father Charles Coughlins was an Irish canadian priest in Detroit, Michigan. Coughlin broke with the president in 1934 and became a bitter opponent in his weekly. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties, the time of servere dust storms. This happened do to no rain and the dry lands. The high winds would past through and take the dirt with it. -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act was darfted during Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee. The act was an attempt to limit what were seen as dangers in the modern American life. -
Social Security
Social Security started in 1935. Social Security means Federal Old-Age or the OASDI program in the United States. -
GM Sit-down Strike
Union workers learned that GM was moving dies of of Fisher #1 in Flint, Michigan. They marched into the factory and held a sit-down strike. A sit-down strike is when the workers occupy the factory and keep management out. -
Rape of Nanjing
The Rape of Nanjing, also known as Nanjing Massacre was a mass murder and rape during the six-week period. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians were murdered. They also raped 20,000-80,000 women. -
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath isa novel written by John Steinbeck. the novel was based on the Great Depression. It tells about a family of sharecroppers who live inOklahoma. They suffered from drought, and were caught in the Dust Bowl. They set out for California in hope of new jobs and land. -
Neutrality Acts
There were many series of Neutrality Acts during the 1930s. They limited the United States' involvement in future wars after the response to what the US did during WWI.
