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Herbert Hoover takes office
After campaigning for prosperity and efficiency against democratic candidate Alfred Smith, hoover was elected president. Hoover began the presidency optimistically by saying "Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation". On his first day in office, Hoover organized a conference with the press in which he declined a spokesman and asked them to quote him directly. -
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1929-1939
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The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a near-century period of major dust storms that caused devistating ecological and agricultural damage to farms of the south. During the Dust Bowl, which spanned from 1930 to 1936, the dust storms devoured 100,000,000 acres of land across Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. -
RFC
The RFC was an inependant agency ran by the US government, instituted by President Hoover. This agency gave $2 billion dollars in much-needed aid to local and state governments and made loans to banks, mortage associations, railraods, and various other businesses. This program was succeeded by the New Deal, which played a key role in handling the great depression. -
The Bonus Army
The Bonus Army, also known as Bonus Expitionary Force, was a force of 43,000 men and women-WWI veterans and supporters, who rallied for the compensation they were promised by the The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924. This act promised veterans of WWI compensation for their time in the armed forces. However, they were not awarded their money yet. They rallied for their cause, because they needed their money in the midst of trying times. -
FDR elected
Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered the presidency as the 32nd president of the United States. FDR was the only American president to be elected for more than two terms.In first 100 days, Roosevelt created the New Deal, a program with various sub-programs in relief efforts. Roosevelt worked closely with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in leading allies against germany and japan in WWII. -
Hitler takes power
Adolf Hitler was a german politican and leader of the National Socialist German Workers party, also known as the Nazis. Hitler was the chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945, and head of state from 1934-1945. -
Father Coughlin attacks FDR and jews
Father Charles Edward Coughlin was a priest at National Shrine of the Little Flower Church. Coughlin was one of the first to use radio as a means of reaching a mass audience. Coughlin's weekly broadcasts attracted more than thirty million a week. In 1934, he announced "Nation's Union of Social Justice." After hinting at attacks of Jewish bankers, he began to use his show to rationalize policies of Hitler and Mussolini. -
Indian Reorganization Act
Also known as the Wheeler-Howard Act, was a federal legislation that granted certain rights to Native Americans and Alaskan Natives. The act gave them the right to self-government on reservations and management of their own assets. The act required the tribes to adopt a constitution -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act was drafted during Roosevelt's first term in office by his committtee of Economic Security, and was passed by congress as part of the New Deal program. The objective of the Social Secutiy Act was to limit what was seen as dangerous in modern society-Old age, poverty, unemployment, and burdnes of fatherless children and widows. With the signing of this act, Roosevelt became the first president to federally advocate for the elderly. -
GM sit-down strike
The GM sit-down strike, also known as the flint sit down strike, changd the United Automobile Workers(UAW) into a major labor union. The sit-down strikes started with the cleveland strikes, and the UAW vowed to continue the cleveland strikes until a nation-wide agreement was met among all GM plants. The objective of the sit-down strikes were to allow no management of officials to enter the plants. -
Rape of Nanjing
The Nanking massacre was a mass murder and ware rape that occured six weeks after the Japanese capture of Naking, the former capital of the Republic of China on on December 13, 1937, in the midst of the second Sino-Japanese war. Thousands of Chinese civilians were murdered, and 20,000-80,000 Chinese women were raped by the Imperial Japanese Army. -
The Grapes of Wrath
Is a novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1939. This book won Steinbeck the Pulitzer prize in 1940, and Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. This book tells the story of the Joads, a family of sharecroppers who are forced to move from their oklahoma home due to economic hardship, drought, and changes in the agricultural industry. This book gave the people of the 1930's something to connect and relate to. -
Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality act of 1939 allowed for fire arms to be traded on a cash and carry basis with nations engaged in the war, ending the arms embargo.
