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Herbert Hoover takes office
Herbert Hoover was one of the members of the Republican Party. He was the 31st president of the United States, and most of the blame was put on him for the Great Depression. -
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1929-1939
dates of the imporant events throughout 1929-1939 -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC was an agency eto provide emergency financing to banks, life-insurance companies and other large businesses. -
The Bonus Army
A group of World War I veterans from around the country. They traveled to Washington D.C. to support a bill that would give money to the ones who served in the war. -
FDR Elected
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a member of the Democratic Party. He was the 32nd president of the United States. He had a "can-do" attitude, which helped him win the election. -
The New Deal
the New Deal was designed to alleviate problems of the Great Depression. It focused on relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform. -
The Dust Bowl
The Middle of the US was hit by many dust storms, some people traveled hundreds of miles, The dust storms wiped out much of crops and killed allot of the farmers. -
Hitler Takes Power
Adolf Hitler led the powerful Nazi nation to slaughter millions of Jews and Gypsies, and many said thought of him as the Anti-Christ. -
Father Coughlin Attacks
A Roman Catholic priest, Father Charles Coughlin did not support the New Deal and turned against Roosevelt. At his popularity height, he had 40-45 million people in his radio audience. -
Indian Reorganization Act
The act moved official policy away from assimilation and toward Native American autonomy. Its passage signaled a change in a federal policy. -
Neutrality Acts
Under Roosevelt, Congress passed a series of laws called the Neutrality Acts. These laws were meant to prevent US arms sales and loans to nations at war. -
Social Security Act
This was one of the most important acts of the New Deal. The Social Security Act gave old-age insurance for people retired 65 or older and their spouses, unemployment compensation system, and aid to families with dependent children and the disabled. -
GM Sit-down Strike
United Auto Workers put foward a series of strikes against General Motors in Detroit. The goal was to make the company stop shipping work to plants with nonunion workers. -
Rape of Nanjing
The event was a mass murder, genocide, and war rape that occured after the Japanese capture of the city of Nanking. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians were murdered and up to 80,000 men, women, and children were raped. -
The Grapes of Wrath
It was a famous novel, written by John Steinbeck. It tells about all of the lives of Oklahomans who left the Dust Bowl and went to California. Steinbeck the writer also was in the Dust Bowl as many of the americans were in.
