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1929-1939 American History Timeline
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Herbert Hoover takes office
31st President of the United States -
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 -
The Bonus Army
an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups -
FDR Elected
32nd President of the United States -
hitler takes power
Hitler rose to a place of prominence in the early years of the party. -
The New Deal
a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. -
Indian Reorganization Act
U.S. federal legislation that secured certain rights to Native Americans, including Alaska Natives. -
Father Coughlin attacks FDR, Jews
Coughlin originally supported FDR, but turned against him in 1934 and created a political party, the National Union of Social Justice. Former Louisiana Governor, Huey Long was supposed to be their candidate, but he was assassinated in 1935. -
Social Security Act
An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States -
Neutrality Acts
laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. -
Rape of Nanking
the massacre and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after it captured Nanjing, then capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
GM Sit-down Strike
changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union and led to the unionization of the domestic United States automobile industry. -
The Grapes of Wrath
the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of sharecroppers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries.
